Hotel de Don Julio San Miguel

... stupid cop has set off our extinguisher! Inside the car! Devin, the cop, and the dashboard are covered in white powder! What a mess.... and I can’t stop laughing! At first I try to control it, but I can’t! And all of the other cops that were circling our car saw it happen. The poor guy is embarrassed so he takes out his American Confederate Flag bandana for us to wipe down the car and Devin’s lap. Unbelievable. Of course, now he can ...

After the crazy, steep drive up to Alegria (Wesley did great but I didn´t fare so well!) we entered a little, quaint village lost in time. It was so beautiful and the people were sooo very kind. It was clean, well kept and Devin and I knew instantly that we had found a gem. We spent the night in the courtyard of a hostel and the family was every bit as kind and caring as they could ...

... which fell victim to a horrendous massacre of (according to the ex-guerrilla at the war museum) over 1000 people, literally destroying the community altogether. I found it a little confusing and, well, suspicious of the facts, though: the massacre took place more or less before the war started and before guerrillas were active in the area. Such a tremendous massacre must´ve been provoked in some way; things like that just don´t happen. Anyway, fairly ...

Got up made repairs to the bikes in the morning at the garage of the Auto Hotel - fixed the broken mirror and re-loaded the bikes up. We tried to drive to a lake in El Salvadore but again got very lost - ending up in the back woods of somewhere and when we asked the kids playing around where was the lake or where they go swimming they just looked at us and stared/ Maybe they dont speak Spanish or something or we were just way way lost. We decided to stop ...

... out the hard way, the ferry going back and forth to the surrounding towns simply never arrive or never leave. I immediately wanted to view the popular waterfalls of Los Tercios before sundown and was told to ask the local police for an escort. At first I felt like I was an imposition but they were more than happy to have the tourist police guide me to the falls. I felt like a movie star with my two bodyguards and rather silly but in the ...

... highway or CA2 highway. The original thought was CA1. Apun looking at the map we could see CA2 wraps around the Pacific Ocean coast for over 60 km´s.That being said we also knew where there´s water there are usually very curvy roads. We took a gamble CA2 it is. We left Sonsonate and headed for the highway. Once on CA2 we were not disappointed this highway snaked around the Pacific coast like snakes on ...

... enter El Salvador. We took a back road from Antigua to Escuintla and it was fantastic. There was virtually no traffic, the road surface quality was very good and of course due to our elevation and close proximity to three volcanoes it was a motorcyclists paradise.It offered very tight turns, huge blind turns and great scenery. Once we got to the end of our descent we stopped and had huge smiles on our faces. We needed this because ...

... a governmental army who had financial backing from Ronald Reagan´s USA and were outnumbered in terms of both people and, more importantly, arms. The museum was little more than a community centre with a few pictures and old weapons that had been recovered from both sides, as well as three shot-down helicopters in its back garden. Seems a shame that a war that took so many lives is not really remembered in any official way. There was also a huge bomb crater where the army ...

... his mum just dropped him off one morning when he was a baby because she couldn´t look after him. They live off the few gringos that come by, the people who want to swim or play soccer on her field, and of what she cultivates: beans, onions, tomatoes, cucumbers, bananas and coffee. They have a lot of chicken, three dogs, about 5 cows and a pig. It rained pretty much all the time, so we couldn ...

... wall art dating back some 10,000 years. The paintings are very much like stick figures and are spread around quite haphazard. Unfortunately the art is getting more degraded since the cave is more of an indentation in the cliff and the elements can get into the area. Once finished here we walked back to the village and had a stroll round the market. This one was mainly clothing and shoes so not much of ...