http://blogs.bootsnall.com/ccriders My BootsnAll Travel Blog Mon, 06 Apr 2009 13:57:57 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en After some amazing and varied beach experiences in Mexico, we decided to reenter the US via Brownsville , TX. since it was familiar and incident free ( although all of the hype about the borders, though true in some places, was not a reality for most of the country). The ... http://blogs.bootsnall.com/ccriders/back-in-the-us-of-a-april-6th.html Back in Mexico  March 23, 2009 Internet access has been an issue, thereby postings have suffered. Writing while not on-line makes it hard to remember where we were last when writing but I think it was Antigua, Guat. At any rate, we pulled ourselves away from there with a bit ... http://blogs.bootsnall.com/ccriders/156.html Leaving Antigua, we headed into the highlands to check out Lake Atitlan- a world reknown destination for the famous,wealthy and backpackers. The ride to the lake was an amazing array of patchwork gardens on impossibly steep hillsides. The lake, itself, is quite beautiful although the largest and most popular town ... http://blogs.bootsnall.com/ccriders/lake-atitlan-and-antigua-revisited.html http://blogs.bootsnall.com/ccriders/mas-photos.html We're in this colonial town for a few days, camped at the tourist police center. No, we're not in jail! They allow campers into their facility - bathrooms, showers, electric plug in, and WiFi; all for free. The town is on some of the only flat land we've seen in ... http://blogs.bootsnall.com/ccriders/antigua-guatemala.html A few photos to go with Craig's blog. We have moved on from the coast and are now in the volcano/coffee highlands. Very,very beautiful as well as the ride up here. Incredibly dramatic vistas. While stopped at a gas station yesterday, we were approached by 2 young guys on bikes, inquiring if ... http://blogs.bootsnall.com/ccriders/ash-wed.html It was bittersweet leaving Nicaragua, we had so many good times there, as well as fine coffee. When we woke up in Esteli it was 57 degrees - felt like a cool VT fall day. Crossing the border into Honduras wasn't bad, but as we dropped out of the mountains ... http://blogs.bootsnall.com/ccriders/surf-casting-el-salvador.html Just found a few more photos to post while we have the wifi connection. http://blogs.bootsnall.com/ccriders/granada-nica-again.html Feb. 16,2009 Costa Rica Revisited After the border crossing, we returned to Golfito for the afternoon and night but this time we spent some time in the town itself and enjoyed the area even more than the last visit. The town is one road wide encompassing a pretty harbor which ... http://blogs.bootsnall.com/ccriders/heading-north.html Golfito We traveled the Central Highlands, Pan Am Highway, to go from San Jose to Golfito, out on the southern most coast. This entailed an all day drive up into the clouds ,and rain at times, cresting at over 10,000 ft. The van was not happy with this part of the ... http://blogs.bootsnall.com/ccriders/update-from-last-days-in-panama.html