Huck and Henna En Route

I hope while reading our blog, you had the feeling of being well informed about our trip.
I have to tell you though, that we didn’t write about everything.
Most importantly we didn’t write the negative and positive results of about four pregnancy tests that we made around the end of our trip.
Already at the end of [...]

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Heslinki, 12-3-2008
Time is fast. Not only while travelling, but also here.
I didn’t have (or take) time to sit down and update the blog. Until now, so here is a brief update:
We finally arrived in Düsseldorf (again, oh American Airlines, we arrived a day late and, again, one bag was missing).
My parents were expecting us at [...]

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well, I am sitting by a computer and that shouldn’t be. Right now we should be in the air, somewhere between London and Duesseldorf. But as it is, we are not in the air and we are not even in London yet.
No, we are still in America, and just spend a night in a Miami [...]

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well,
today is the 1st of february, the day of our departure. We are going  away from Central America and we are coming back to Europe.
Oh yes, we had a good time. But we are not back yet. We are still en route, but rolling home.
Again we packed the bikes in boxes, bought two “catastrophy-bags” to [...]

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San José, 28.1.2008
Like a cat around the hot porridge we were tiptoeing around Sas José in the last days.
After we left La Fortuna (look at “stories”) yesterday morning by bus to San Ramon, we couldn´t decide where to go. We wanted to avoid the streams of tourits, that suddenly cover Costa Rica since we came [...]

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Like a white wall reaching up into the sky.
The view to the volcano Arenal is nothing but clouds. Some people come here for a week without ever seeing the main attraction.
I suspect the operators of tourist buisnesses to have fog machines installed on the slopes of Arenal, so that the paying guests will stay a [...]

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La Fortuna, 25.01.2008 
The volcano Arenal is active. Since 1968, the gigantic pimple is open.
Almost 40 years ago, it awoke with some leathal explosions and ever since, it has been active again. It is good to live near an active volcano, because you can be sure that the pressure is constantly released.
If Arenal would suddenly be [...]

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Since Orotina:
bus, ferry, hitchhiking, one night in Manzanillo, hitch hiking and now we are in Santa Teresa, a busy surfers beach on the otherwise beautiful peninsula de Nicoya.
Watching the surfers is pretty nice, and swimming in the waves as well, but being in a very US-like place (and dusty on top of that), is not [...]

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…during the time, when my brother was doing a volunteership in the area of Acosta, a canton south of San José. Before we left for our journey, he gave us a letter for the people he was staying with and that is why we were heading to Acosta, after we left San José yesterday.
We first [...]

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..waiting at the Texaco in Esteli, we are melting in the sun. We meet a french couple, cycling down the panamericana with their weird tandem bike, where one is sitting forward and the other one backwords.
This was about all the excitement of the day, since we were mostely sitting in the bus. We had to [...]

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