Today we travelled 230 miles (370 kms) and did a border post where we had to leave Guatemala and enter El Salvador.
We had a very nice breakfast where we able to see once more the enchanted view. There was no fog so it was very beautiful.
The road to the border is in very good condition and our intention was to do El Salvador in one day. But as we have started to learn the process in these Central American borders are not very simple and we take hours to get through and this is with minimal traffic as there is an agreement between 4 of the countries (Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras and Nicaragua) and people from these countries have free access to the others. The biggest time consumer is at customs where we have to get the temporary importation authorization of the motorcycles. They have to fill the same information multiple times in a plentitude of forms.
We eventually made it through and entered El Salvador where we were impressed by the American influence in the country. The large American household names are very well represented and we stopped in a food court type of place where we had the Burger King whopper and I also had a strawberry milkshake from Boston Company.
The road was in excellent condition and we made good time to San Miguel, SV where we decided to spend the night. Finding an hotel was not easy and we ventured into some shady neighborhoods but eventually we found a taxi driver that gave us a good and affordable hotel name and we parked the bikes. The hotel had a pool and a siting area where we drank dome beers and spoke about the day’s ride.
But before arriving at the hotel we donated a soccer ball (offered by Teague and Lindsay Griffin) to Rene, a young Salvadoran. He had his sister and his dad with him and we took some pictures to remember each other.
For the evening we went into a barbecue place where Bo had the beef, Dave the chicken and I had the prawns.
We went back to the hotel and caught up with the daily messages and social network updates.
Make Life a Ride !
Lunch on the road
Arriving in El Salvador
Arrival in San Miguel, SV
Giving a soccer ball in San Miguel, SV
Giving a soccer ball in San Miguel, SV II
Walking the streets and dinner in San Miguel, SV
Facebook post for the day
Click HERE for all the photos and videos of this Day
We had a very nice breakfast where we able to see once more the enchanted view. There was no fog so it was very beautiful.
The road to the border is in very good condition and our intention was to do El Salvador in one day. But as we have started to learn the process in these Central American borders are not very simple and we take hours to get through and this is with minimal traffic as there is an agreement between 4 of the countries (Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras and Nicaragua) and people from these countries have free access to the others. The biggest time consumer is at customs where we have to get the temporary importation authorization of the motorcycles. They have to fill the same information multiple times in a plentitude of forms.
We eventually made it through and entered El Salvador where we were impressed by the American influence in the country. The large American household names are very well represented and we stopped in a food court type of place where we had the Burger King whopper and I also had a strawberry milkshake from Boston Company.
The road was in excellent condition and we made good time to San Miguel, SV where we decided to spend the night. Finding an hotel was not easy and we ventured into some shady neighborhoods but eventually we found a taxi driver that gave us a good and affordable hotel name and we parked the bikes. The hotel had a pool and a siting area where we drank dome beers and spoke about the day’s ride.
But before arriving at the hotel we donated a soccer ball (offered by Teague and Lindsay Griffin) to Rene, a young Salvadoran. He had his sister and his dad with him and we took some pictures to remember each other.
For the evening we went into a barbecue place where Bo had the beef, Dave the chicken and I had the prawns.
We went back to the hotel and caught up with the daily messages and social network updates.
Make Life a Ride !
Lunch on the road
Arriving in El Salvador
Arrival in San Miguel, SV
Giving a soccer ball in San Miguel, SV
Giving a soccer ball in San Miguel, SV II
Walking the streets and dinner in San Miguel, SV
Facebook post for the day
Click HERE for all the photos and videos of this Day
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