Once again, we got quite lucky with our rides. Quite early in the morning, we began hitchhiking and were soon rewarded with a ride going a few kilometers out of the city to the junction at the Alaskan highway and […]
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Hitchhiking from Texas to Alaska Part Eight: Getting to Canada
Slightly dazed from our short stay in Seattle, we woke up early and got ready to start our trip to Canada. We planned to stay a night in Port Angeles, but this turned out to be unnecessary. After a short […]
To America
The land of the free and home of the brave waited for us. We hopped on the surprisingly very nice Greyhound towards the United States at 10:00pm from Monterrey, planning to arrive at 6:00am in San Antonio. Given these hours, […]
A Long Day of Travelling to Mexico
Still fully in the mind set of waking up at bone crushing early hours, we woke up at 5 am to catch the 6am bus to the El Ceibo border crossing with Mexico. In contrast to what we were told, […]
Antigua
Our immediate goal after the Copán Ruinas was to go to Antigua in Guatemala. The difference between the two countries’ border services was night and day. On the Honduran side, we waited for a while until we got the attention […]
Hitchhiking to Honduras
This was the day we made some poor decisions, got unlucky a few times, and ended up just fine. After breakfast, we walked out of the city centre of Matagalpa looking for a car to bring us in the direction […]
To Nicaragua
With the sloth sighting complete, it was time to hightail out of the very expensive Costa Rica to Nicaragua. We waited outside Hacienda Baru Wildlife Refuge for a ride, and soon, a young couple picked us up and drove us […]
Visiting Parque Nacional Corcovado on Shoestring
Costa Rica is stunningly beautiful, but also expensive. Very expensive. For example, to visit Parque Nacional Corcovado on the Osa Peninsula, , one of the jewels of the Costa Rica wildlife scene, you have to pay a USD $15 entry fee […]
Crossing from Colombia to Panama on foot
There are many routes and travel itineraries in both South America and Central America. You can travel east, west, over mountains, stick to the beaches, or use a combination of all extremes, but there is one part of the route […]
Boat Journey From Manaus to Tabatinga
To complete travelling across the entirety of the Brazilian length of the Amazon by boat, we embarked on another ship for 7 more days. With our wealth of experience from the Belem journey behind us, we got to the dock […]