October 2nd , 2004

October 2nd, 2004

Johanne keeps doggedly givin’er even though she doesn’t feel well yet and we make it to the border in the early afternoon.

Nicaragua

At the border there are guides who are supposedly there to help us through the crazy amounts of bureaucracy. We use all our money to feed the machine and register our bikes as vehicles. We even pay for their photocopies. In the evening after biking through rolling terrain along a long straight road we arrive in Somoto. A family where Johanne had stayed six years ago during an international solidarity project is surprised to see her and invites us to stay as much as we want vacating a bed for our comfort. The small house contains four girls, their mother Ana Luisa, her parents, her sister, her brother, the dogs, the two parrots, the chickens, the cats, and us. It is a wonderful family atmosphere. Every morning we awake early and have a hot black coffee and a cookie, I love it. Then I get Johanne’s flue and I don’t love it. I cough, I’m weak, the sun makes me shudder.

A good week goes by in this family home. We are at home, this is a wonderful feeling after moving without fail for a year.