Florida to Nicaragua Road Trip #9: Playa El Zonte, El Salvador, through Honduras & to Chinandega, Nicaragua

Dear Reader, We are almost home! Four and a half hours and we will be home. But first we must rest and sleep and let the night turn to day. This morning we awoke to bird song in a lovely setting in El Salvador. We’d slept well and felt excited about our proximity to home. After a great cup of coffee and a wonderful breakfast by the pool, we were out of there. Only two more border crossings to go. Well, four actually, in that we still had to leave El Salvador, enter into Honduras, leave Honduras and enter into …

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Florida to Nicaragua Road Trip #8: Ratalhuleu, Guatemala to Playa El Zonte, El Salvador

Dear Reader, Yesterday was rough. Our five-hour delay at the Guatemala border and then the horrific Guatemalan roads along CA-2 kicked our butts. John was so anxious that he announced last night that we were going to hit the road at first light this morning and would just get our coffee and breakfast along the way. I did not like that idea. CA-2 is not an easy road to find coffee and breakfast along the way. As it was, all night we heard traffic going by. (I was too cranky and tired last night to remember to spray our lavender …

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