Category: Central America (Page 4 of 5)

Last night we went to our little town’s Carnival, but we were too late, it was only the noise, police and a few hawkers closing their stall down.

I f you look to the right of the stage you will see big tanker Truck. Every town we passed yesterday and today had several tanker trucks lining the main road or little church square, but the police had closed off every towns main road and we were re-routed past the back of the trucks, I could not figure out why there were trucks????????… Read More

Last night we asked the owner of our little hostel where we could eat, he said that the festivities were only ending at 2h00 so we should walk up the road to the Square and find a place to eat there. Our Hostel was one block away from the action where the Carnaval was taking place. I had walked earlier in the afternoon to go and buy some water and there was a stream of people leaving the square, they walked 8 abreast and blew their whistles and danced their way home, according to me the party ended at 17h00.… Read More

This Morning we had a coffee and pastry at a little bakery next to our hotel and then we headed off to the see our Shipping Agent at the Cargo Terminal at the Airport. I was expecting lots of heavy traffic but the roads were flowing and we rode with the sea on our right and new modern 40 Stories high-rise buildings on our left.… Read More

I have always known that when you need to make an omelette you will have to break some eggs, so I knew that traveling around the world would have some sections or days that has too be done but is not part of the fun-days or “Lekker dinge” as we say in Afrikaans, my mother language. I have been dreading today the most of everything, today was breaking eggs for the omelette, I knew all along it would come and I knew it would be painful.… Read More

Correction: In yesterday’s Blog I said Bogota was at 1600m, but I was wrong, it is at 2600m high and lots of people have a mild case of Altitude Sickness when arriving in Bogota.

This morning we tried our best to extend our stay but the Holiday Inn Express was fully booked for tonight and Sunday night, and I am going to miss their beds, and hot water, and breakfast, and fast Wi-Fi, instead, we just checked into our $25 rooms, two per room, making it $12-50 per person, so I probably can’t expect to sleep as well as I did last night.… Read More

I must be physic !!!!!!!! Like a Clairvoyant, I knew last night that $12-50 per person sounds too good to be true. But our Half-Swiss-Half-Portugese-Half-Spanish-Speaking member was assigned with inspecting last nights rooms, and he was happy with the cleanliness and size of the rooms, so we trusted him, but he had a serious loss of concentration, very un-like him, and missed completely the position of the rooms, all street facing on the 1st floor, plus no air-con, so you could not close the windows, and the noise from the street was deafening throughout the night.… Read More

Today’s Blog is going to be a short one, mainly because we just sat in the waiting area at the Customs Office from 9h00 to 18h00. And at lunch time we sat in the Canteen, and then we sat in the waiting area again. All the bikers we had met were there and two new Americans, a great couple which chatted away with us for hours.… Read More

We had coffee at 6h00 and left at 6h30, not expecting the day it turned out to be we were relaxed and after the 1st Stop-&Go Pie disappeared off into the Sunrise. I was leading with Milsy right behind me when the road forked. We spoke on the intercom and both our GPS’s said right, getting off the “45” and onto the “20”.… Read More

Correction: I said fuel was R40 per litre, I was wrong, its R40 per Gallon, so closer to R10 per litre in Colombia.

Yesterday’s Route on the 10 ran South West and joined the Trans American Highway just below Cali (famous for where the Cali Cartel operated from.)

Last night we went out for dinner, it was a bit of a dud as it was late and most places were getting ready to close the kitchen.… Read More