Chat Zone for The Big Big Trip Journal!

[HobbesOnTour]

Back where? Ireland, Netherlands or the States?
By bike?
Here in Glasgow we fear that restrictions could come back in the winter, like it happened last year.

Oh, I'm sorry!
It's not clear because the Travelogue is a bit behind.
Costa Rica is my destination today! I had raced to CR to get a flight to Austin.

I haven't given up on this trip yet!😊

I think you're dead right. The Covid train has a long, long way to run yet. Restrictions are a "rich country" solution and in some cases a political/ideological response or not. Nothing is certain.

At least now, with a vaccine, bailout options are open to me again.

 

[CharlesF]

Boy COVID has thrown up lots of hurdles for you! Well done for organising the trip using your phone and having (so it seems) plenty of unknowns.

Fingers crossed that the vaccination trip is now a smooth and easy trip.

 

[cwskas]

Tomorrow, Thursday, is for going as far as I can. Friday is a long day to Liberia (airport). Saturday is for getting the Covid test, checking out the airport and storing the gear. Sunday morning I leave Costa Rica again.

That makes me tired, just reading it!!!

Willie

 

[Pat "5mph"]

Boy COVID has thrown up lots of hurdles for you! Well done for organising the trip using your phone and having (so it seems) plenty of unknowns.

Fingers crossed that the vaccination trip is now a smooth and easy trip.

He's had the vaccine, J&J, one shot only needed.
It's on the post above yours

 

[cwskas]

There were several small rivers to cross that flowed into the lake but mainly I was cycling through trees with rare glimpses of the water to my left.

Southern Nicaragua and Costa Rica look very nice. Lots of jungle I hear. I am reading about Liberia on wikipedia now.

Willie

 

[HobbesOnTour]

Southern Nicaragua and Costa Rica look very nice. Lots of jungle I hear. I am reading about Liberia on wikipedia now.

Willie

You're doing it wrong, Willie!
You're supposed to be reading up before I get there and suggesting where I go!

 

[IaninSheffield]

You're doing it wrong, Willie!
You're supposed to be reading up before I get there and suggesting where I go!

If we had the slightest clue where you were going, we might! But even then you'd head off in some figary and our efforts would be wasted.

 

[HobbesOnTour]

@IaninSheffield
Too true!
I'm going South......most of the time!

However, I'd suggest that researching a little, or just plain old reading about foreign places is never wasted effort! Look where it got me!

Ironically, the most developed Central American country has the most intermittent internet! Updates coming soon and another feckin' race to a border

 

[cwskas]

they were on after Lucinda Williams. Nobody, and I mean nobody, could have generated the emotion, the spirit, the energy or the power that was in the air while she was on stage.

Nothing beats live music! It’s even better in good company! And Lucinda was soooo good!

Willie

 

[netman]

stateless, homeless and some might say feckless

Love it! I aspire to be like that one day too!

Can't believe you saw Lucinda Williams - I'm a huge fan. Did she play Copenhagen? I bloody love that song!

 

[netman]

The day had one flaw - my Ipod reset itself in Texas.

Let me know if there's anything I can do to help - dump some music somewhere online so you can download it? (I have some Lucinda Williams!)

Let's just stop and appreciate that for a moment.
Willie lives about 120 miles away, has effectively "moved" to Austin for the duration of my visit and brought me a bike!

Nice one @cwskas

 

[HobbesOnTour]

Love it! I aspire to be like that one day too!

Can't believe you saw Lucinda Williams - I'm a huge fan. Did she play Copenhagen? I bloody love that song!

Hop up on a bike and you never know who you'll see!

No, she didn't play Copenhagen but she did play Joy which I took to be a big "Feck you" to her condition.

Not trying to make you feel bad, but it was a special performance.

 

[HobbesOnTour]

Let me know if there's anything I can do to help - dump some music somewhere online so you can download it? (I have some Lucinda Williams!)

That's very, very kind.
It's an ipod classic I have (very old school) and can't be updated except from my laptop (sitting in an attic in NL - a well insulated attic I hope)

And my phone fills up with photos.

I really appreciate the offer (and may take you up on it later!) but for the moment I'm good. One long, busy road in Panama may just change my mind!

It gives me a chance to master my songwriting skills!

Thank you!

Nice one @cwskas

Willie's the Biz!

 

[IaninSheffield]

Great! As well as all kinds of killer spiders and creepy crawlies, snakes and crocodiles I have to be careful of snails!

With the heat, humidity and hills ... oh, and now the mud, you better take care you don't get overtaken by one!

 

[HobbesOnTour]

With the heat, humidity and hills ... oh, and now the mud, you better take care you don't get overtaken by one!

At least our colour schemes don't match otherwise I might be in danger of being bagged!

Out of the hills and flying!