Week 112. Pura Vida. Costa Rica has ‘Pura Vida’ written all over it: hotels are called pura vida, shops are called pura vida, soaps are called pura vida, wifi passwords are pura vida, boats are called pura vida, souvenirs have pura vida written on them and people greet each other with pura vida. What about us? Same old: two steps of pura vida, three steps back.
Weekly Updates
Week 111: Two Steps Forward
Week 111. Two steps forward, three steps back. We had a minor setback this week. Kira couldn’t walk for 3 days. Reason: bad muscle cramps. We became experts in muscle aches and cramps over the years, but this type of cramp was a new experience. So yeah, minor setback, but all is good now and we’re back on the road with our muscles of steel
Week 110: Cycling in Costa Rica
Week 110. Cycling in Costa Rica (finally!!!). We already cycled 1/4 of the whole county! It’s very green and also very clean. Tulku got a new haircut this week. Not our finest work, but all the humidity makes even dog’s hair go fizzy
Week 109: David
Week 109. So close, yet so far. We are in the last major town of Panama – David. Only 50 Kilometers and one mountain separates us from the most complicated border of all Latin America. Paso Canoas will be our first Central American bordercrossing. We will be in Costa Rica afterwards.
Week 108: Birthdays on the Road
Week 108. Birthdays on the road. You know that you’re getting old when there are that many candles on your cake…
P.S. Still stuck in Panama.
Week 107: The Drought
Week 107. The drought. Panama is suffering from drought (thanks to el niño) and we are suffering together with it. While Panama is preparing to partially shut down the Panama Canal, our siestas are becoming longer and longer everyday. Can you imagine cycling in a country where you have to start your siesta at 8 in the morning?
Week 106: Suprise
Week 106. There are some certain things that you don’t want to find next to you in the morning, after sleeping outside without a tent. Here is one of those things that we didn’t want to, but yet found. We won’t repeat the experiment ‘let’s ditch the tent’ anytime soon.
Week 105: 100 Days Untill Christmas
Week 105. Only 100 days left until Christmas! We made 100-day-plan for all our team members to reach their goals. Tulku’s main goal is to be able to walk 4 hours non stop once per week and reach her pre-operation condition! How much can you achieve in 100 days?
Week 104: Power Outage
Week 104. Power outage. Central America is not known for stable power supply. So our highlight of this week is shopping without lights. You get a torch and then you help yourself through the small mini-super (local name for general store). At the end the lady looks with her own torch what is in your shopping cart (or what you put on her desk) and sums all up in a calculator (because nothing works without a calculator in Latin America). Oh and she knows all the prices by heart so no trouble with that.
Week 103: Burned Out
Week 103. Burned out. We spent two days and two nights laying under a mango tree. No tent, no shower, no toilet. Just laying under a mango tree. During daytime we watched clouds passing by; at night we watched shooting stars (we counted 8 before falling asleep). And then it started to rain, so we moved under a roof. And kept laying, completely burned out. We still are laying. Half of the people tell us ‘Oh, you overcame even worse things, sure you’ll be fine!’, the other half tell us ‘You’re living a dream, it can’t be bad!’. And here we are, still laying. On the bright side, we will walk past that mango tree tonight on our way to watch astronauts in the Soyuz capsel on their way to ISS, so I guess the world is still spinning.
Boundless Biking 