Panama Canal Ride - Redux

EricV

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#27
Hopefully they loop around and cross on the Bridge of the Americas on the way back. That was the IBR bonus years ago, South end of the Bridge of Americas and you could skip checkpoint two. :D
 

Dave28117

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#30
Has anyone heard from the guys? I noticed on spot this morning that Mike is tagged near a hospital in Choluteca Honduras. Greg's spot is showing he's moved to the north. Hmmmm....hope things are ok.
 

EricV

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#31
They spent a lot of time at the Costa Rica/Nicaragua boarder yesterday morning. Lots of back and forth for Mike's spot. It looks like Mike spent the night at the hospital, ping there at 9pm or so and bike ping at 7am today, so maybe he's getting moving again? Greg seems to have left him and is up the road, but still in Honduras. Roughly 2 hours ahead of Mike's location. 130 kms or so.
 

Greg Rice

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#34
I just uploaded 103 videos from our ride to the Panama Canal and back on my YouTube channel. This is raw videos so some may be good and some well. Some of the videos are of border crossing and others are us riding.

I have 15 more to upload but Google said I reached my daily limit, so I will upload those tomorrow.

Sort by Date Added ( Oldest ) and that should put the videos in order of when made.

https://www.youtube.com/user/gregrice56/videos
 

Greg Rice

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#36
We got trapped in no-man's land between the Costa Rica and Nicaragua border because the Nicaragua immigration office decided to close early. We had to sleep between the borders. The Costa Rica National Police saw where we decided to camp, and they said to come over by their office where we would be safer.

At 3:30 AM we were asleep, and all hell broke loose as we were woken up by some crazy loud sounds. It was hard to describe the sounds, but we eventually figured it out, it was howler monkeys all around us in the trees.

Here is a link to a short video, turn up the volume.

Monkeys at Nicaragua border - YouTube

http://www.gregrice.com/panama/gregrice-monkeys-nicaragua-border.mp4
 

Greg Rice

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#37
I updated all of my Panama Canal Ride videos on YouTube with the location and what direction we were riding. I had my GoPro 9 mounted on my 2019 BMW GSA and took over 100 videos along the way in both directions. Some are short videos and others are about 12 minutes long. It shows many of the border crossings and the roads along our route. Some of the videos just show us riding and others have good information. Some of the videos are very entertaining.

I created a playlist with all of the videos in the order I made them ( most of them are in the correct order :rolleyes: ), here is the link.

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL0Kg4k0ZjJrzeeQvU2R-8TKl_T8sW2tk2