Posts From Nicaragua

It's the afternoon of July 14th and I am sitting in a nice room at the Camino Real Hotel in Managua Nicaragua. The last 4 or 5 days have been a bit of a trial and it is a pleasure to have some comfortable surroundings for a brief period. Its also good to be past the question mark of Honduras and now - we hope - definitely on our way to Panama and thence South America.

At breakfast Norm offered to conduct todays city tour himself rather than use a local tour company, and we accepted.

At dinner last night Norm suggested we stay at the hotel another day and spend today touring the nearby city of Granada - about a 50 minute drive from the hotel.

Getting out of Managua and towards Lake Nicaragua Norm got stopped by a radar trap and paid US $40 in "fines"

This morning it was raining and the heavy clouds convinced us that it would rain all day so there seemed no point hanging around the coast. So we headed for the border. This turned out to be a good decision as heavy rain persisted almost all the way to the Costa Rica/Nicaraguan border.

We were on the road by 7:30 this morning pleased to leave our curbside camping spot and have the vehicle air conditioner going.

We spent the day planning our route through Honduras and Mexico back to the US.