I know I have mentioned before, our territory is huge...about 3,000 square miles, and most of it is dirt road. Most of which is not on Google Maps or the nice detailed paper (yeah, you remember paper maps) travel maps of Nicaragua, so we must physically explore. This is where it gets interesting. What is needed most in our group is people with transportation, because most of the time the buses do not take you to your territory. They may take you only so far and then you have to walk 1 or 2 hours to get to the rest, or they drop you off and do not return till the next day and you may or may not find a place to stay for the night. This is why we bought our motorbikes...but it can get tricky during the rainy season. (right now is the rainy season)
Rural Nicaragua is an entire world in itself, so beautiful and amazing. Last weekend one of the couples, Brianna and Daniel went with Jessica and I up north to Las Salinas and the beaches of Playa Guasecate and Playa Gigante. There are tons of roads heading off to the beach that foreigners build houses on and we are out to find them! We literally drive road by road mapping it out and censusing. We were so sore by the end of the day because of the bumpy dirt roads on the motorbike, but it was very successful. We happened to come across some brothers witnessing from the spanish in that area and they had 1 american brother with them who had been there for 4yrs, he married a local. No one knew he was there and he was able to help us narrow down our territory and answer vital questions that might have taken us all day to find out.
Yesterday I returned to that area with a new group, Jessica stayed home she wasn't up for the travel on the motorbike, it's 1hr 30min drive. This time though we had a SUV with 5 peeps and myself on my motorbike, what I did not expect was inclement weather. You can't really depend on the weather apps here, they are usually wrong or off by a day.
We found some amazing private beaches and lots of foreigners. We had stopped at an awesome hotel for coffee and pastries when the rain hit, it doesn't pour hard for hours like in Houston only a few minutes, but it drizzled the rest of the day. Now remember that we are on dirt roads, the mud here is so slick and at places so loose that I had virtually no traction on the motorbike. It made for a stressful and interesting day but it was for Jehovah. At one time I had to ride through a river going over the road that was up to my knees at it's deepest point. My bike has street tires, this week I'm buying nobbies for the rest of the rainy season!
We left at 730am and I got back home at 530, which buy then was a constant rain the last 45min of my ride. Needless to say this was the first time I could say I felt frozen here, I was completely soaked.
Magnific Rock
Our coffee break at a private beach hotel
Each room has its own infinity hottub
My River Experience
