Day 38 - San Miguel to Granada
Quick post because I’m exhausted! We started at 7am, got caught in traffic, took 3 hours to cross the border into Honduras while being harassed by the locals, crossed Honduras and got to Nicaragua a...
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Day 37 - San Salvador to San Miguel
This post is dedicated to Mario who has been an incredible host to us here in El Salvador. Yesterday he met us down by the coast and drove us into to town, took us to the motorcycle dealer, dinner, ho...
BMW San Salvador
From Marc: In addition to Mario’s gracious hospitality, I wanted to give a big thanks to the guys at BMW San Salvador. Specifically Walter, the service manager, and Rafael, the head tech. They went ...
Day 36 - Guatemala City to San Salvador
Last night we had a great dinner with Henrique, his wife, and a German couple friends of his. I went to RPI with Henrique and hadn’t seen him in 11 years! Was great to see him. He took us a restaura...
Day 35 - Antigua to Guatemala City
Motorcycle “problem” day - nothing serious. First incident was a total lack of attention on my part - last night I topped off my oil and didn’t screw the top back on tight enough, obviously… o...
Day 34 - Panjachel to Antigua
Short day of riding but none less beautiful. We hung around the hotel this morning to upload videos and do some internet related things we needed to do and then hit the road. Played a lot with differe...
Day 33 - Coban to Panajachel
WOW - Marc and I agreed that today was one of the best riding we have ever had in our lives! After our morning meeting with Trickle Up we hit the road towards Lake Atitlan (apparently being considered...
Day 32 - Gucumatz to Coban
LONG day! Woke up really early to patch Marc’s tire - went pretty smoothly - we found the puncture and patched it with a little help from Eduardo, Moira’s helper - and then we hit the road. The su...
Day 31 - update
Eventful night! While we were taking the showers and getting ready to go back to La Plancha a light rain turned the roads into soap. In the first 10 meters of road Marc slid off to the side. I turned ...
Day 31 - La Plancha to Tikal and back to Gucumatz
Quick post today - writting from my iphone - photos and videos tomorrow night maybe :) Had a great breakfast at the hotel (La Lancha, Jobompiche) and waited a little for the rain to subdue. Rode to Ti...