Biking Day 1: La Entrada to San Pedro Sula
I woke up feeling really good and with lots of energy. It stayed cool for us most of the day and the roads were lined with big trees and lots of shade. We also had nice shoulders to ride on. We had similar scenery to what we see on most of our rides, big grassy fields with scattered cows and some agriculture. We also got to be alongside a river a lot of the way, the Ulua River. For about the first hour we had a very slight downhill, but then of course the hills hit! They weren´t so bad though, and we had more downhill than we had uphill. It was very nice conditions for riding, but we had over 100 km to ride and around the 70 km marker I tired out. We made very good progress up until that point, then we started having to take lots of breaks. At about 100km I was ready to drop dead and we came to the junction with San Pedro Sula. Our plan had been to bypass the city, but we couldn´t tell which way to go and no one gave us any good directions. We were already almost inside the city when we realized what was happening, and we decided to just keep going, cause I was way to tired to backtrack. Our hotel only cost us $7, and the area of town we were in way surprisingly nice and I felt safe there. We found a Dispensa for me! And I found a mutant siamese banana, that was really cool, since I didn´t even know they existed! We also found a block full of fast food for Craig, Pizza Hut, Dunkin Donuts, Burger King, Wendys, Popeyes, Churches Chicken and KFC! Our detour into San Pedro cost us about 15 km, putting our total for the day at 115 km! :( My knees hurt quite bad, it hurt to go up and down the stairs of our hotel, and I was so tired I fell asleep at 7:15!
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| Just one of many overpacked trucks we have seen. This one on the road to San Pedro Sula. |
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| Ulua River just outside San Pedro Sula |
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| The critical point at which we should have turned right, instead of left into San Pedro Sula |
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A siamese banana!!!
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Biking Day 2: San Pedro Sula to Tela
I did not awaken with the energy I had the day before! We set out at 5:45am, and had no trouble getting out of the city in the semi darkness. I still felt very safe there, which was nice, cause I didn´t expect it. We took a main highway out of town with a shoulder as big as a lane for cars and we also lucked out with the first 40 km being slightly downhill! My butt, knees and hands hurt as soon as I got on the bike though. We of course hit hills, as we always do, and they were mostly tiny hills, but they were enough to wipe me out. We finally got to the flats with about 20 km of the almost 100km to go. It was strange seeing enless flat, not something we are accustomed to! It never got too hot today, the sun was behind the clouds for a lot of the day and we had lush tropical scenery to enjoy and tropical agriculture, like palm tree farms! Had we not already been tired from yesterday, today probably would have been our most enjoyable yet. But instead I arrived about to drop dead. By the way I have been wearing the same outfit for 4 biking days in a row and ran out of clean underwear, so today for the first time in my life I wore yesterdays underwear inside out! Ick! A shower has never felt so good. :) Very excited to do laundry tomorrow...
Our plan is to spend tomorrow enjoying the beach and the Lancetilla Botanical Gardens then continue on to La Ceiba, another 100km
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| On the road to Tela |
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| Palm tree fields on the road to Tela |
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| More palm tree fields on the way to Tela |
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| Flat road!!! |
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| Tela |
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| Tela |
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| Tela |
UPDATE: The botanical gardens were rather sucky. No visitors center and nothing was labeled so we had no idea what we were looking at, and it cost $8 to get in! And it took so long to find the place that we ended up staying an extra day in Tela so we could go to the beach. And I am glad cause I needed another day of rest from the bike!
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