With Nicaragua at its end, we are beginning to map our route through Costa Rica. Nicaragua has been an amazing place with some interesting, and not so interesting situations. Since I posted last I left Leon, Nicaragua and the BMW riders to make a short visit to see Dan and Hannah. It was very good see them. While I was on my way I felt pretty good about being back on the road, but stopped myself from getting to comfortable because that is usually in my experience when something bad happens. I was riding like normal passing cars and trucks and came around one side of a truck and passed when I saw a police check point ahead, hmmmm, can you guess what happened? I was flagged over, listening to what Maiko said I stopped instead of blowing by them like I have done in the past, and of course, they wanted my license and registration, the whole nine. I gladly gave it to them not realizing it was going to take me about 30 minutes to get it back. I pulled up to them first speaking Spanish as I normally would, then realized that would only get me into more trouble so I stopped.
I started to play dumb, messing up my Spanish, answering the wrong questions, so on and so on. Eventually I was given back my license not before threats of keeping it and mailing it to the capital where they would hold it for 2 weeks if I didn’t a fine. I played dumb and they laughed at me for not knowing Spanish and eventually I was on my way. Once I made it to Managua, I phoned Dan and Hannah, and we met at Rodney’s and Gio House. Rodney and Gio are their friends they were staying with, a very nice couple, very welcoming and helpful. We went out and met some of their friends and went to a great market. I was very tired from the night before so I wasn’t all that much fun. The dinner was great, we had pork sandwiches, that Rodney made. The next morning I saw them off and headed to Granada to meet up with the BMW riders once again. We explored Granada for a few days and then headed to a volcanic Island off the coast of Lago De Nicaragua, called Ometepe. Two volcanoes make up the Island, one is not active, but the other still makes some movement now and then. We toured around the Island a bit before we made our last stop in San Juan Del Sur, off the Pacific Coast. Here we will be surfing and relaxing before our final push to Panama. The beach is amazing, surfing the Americas!
