by PeterMurtagh-user | Apr 5, 2023 | Blog
March 31st 2023, Santiago Matatlán. I suspect that Emelio Mato was catching 40 winks somewhere out back when I called into his roadside mazcal distillery on the edge of Santiago Matatlán. The distillery, a fairly ramshackle affair, was set back from the road by about...
by PeterMurtagh-user | Apr 3, 2023 | Blog
March 30th 2023, Salinas Cruz, Mexico. It’s not long after crossing the border from Guatemala into Mexico that it begins to dawn on me that this is a huge, like a massive, massive, country. No great revelation there seeing as Mexico has been more or less as it...
by PeterMurtagh-user | Mar 28, 2023 | Blog
March 27th 2023, Antigua, Guatemala. The gods have blessed Antigua. Once the capital of Guatemala, they wrecked it in the late 18th century but in doing so, almost certainly stopped it turning into just another sprawling Latin American city, choking with people and...
by PeterMurtagh-user | Mar 27, 2023 | Blog
Match 24th 2023, Antigua, Guatemala. For the first time on this long journey, I have travelled with a biking buddy. I went from El Tunco in El Salvador to Antigua, Guatemala, a distance of some 260 kilometers and very largely an uneventful journey . . . until I fell...
by PeterMurtagh-user | Mar 25, 2023 | Blog
March 21st 2023, San Salvador. Leaving Nicaragua was not as difficult as I feared it might be. The various officials at the frontier were, well, as they should be — polite and efficient in their work, and I and the bike passed through their hands without...
by PeterMurtagh-user | Mar 21, 2023 | Blog
March 19th 2023, Coyolito, Honduras. I was stopped once more by the police in Nicaragua and, on this occasion, they could not have been more pleasant, friendly and professional. I am happy to be able to write that because it proves, again, that even in a society where...
