sharing my ride while riding El salvador

Riding in El Salvador provides the most spectacular scenery of all of Central America despite the horrible border crossing.  The border crossing is not one I recommend because it was very expensive.  Contact me if you would like more details about the border crossing.  All I can say for now, bring enough American cash, time, and hope you can find one of the human vultures to help you out.......  I call them human vultures jokingly because after a while they start annoying you and all you want to do is to get rid of them.  They are people that hang around the border crossing and force their services onto you.  They want to help but really, all they want is your money.  Sometimes they do provide a service, in our case, we had to hire one of them and pay him a hefty amount of American cash. 

El Salvador is the most beautiful country I visited with vibrant color, animals running wild and the people are very interesting.  It is a poor country and you truly get to experience the meaning of a third world country here. The food near the ocean side is spectacular.  We were riding the Pan American highway route and it goes through massive pineapple fields.  The sweet smell of the pineapple is truly amazing, you just want to stop and find a place to buy one.  The guys were not so interested in such an adventure, so we kept riding until their beer bellies were parched. 

The ocean side was spectacular and so were the mountains, full of rain forest where the air was clean with beautiful plants.  Maybe that is why the locals paint pictures on the poles of the flowers.  Roads were not that great, but still, my motorcycle could handle it all.

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We stopped in this road side kiosk that looked like it has not had a customer in weeks. 

I walked around the place looking for a bathroom and they had none, just a tiny little room with a toilet that you can tell the sewage was being deposited into the ocean. 

No running water, so I quickly grabbed my hand sanitizer.  There was a hose with running water to the kitchen area, I was a little disgusted but very hungry.  It took me a very long time to decide if I was going to eat there, but hunger got the best of me.  When I saw what the boys were eating, I ordered a dish.

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The boys had about 5 of these buckets full of beer.  They love the local beer.

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After watching how much fun they were having, I decided to join them.  I don't drink while I am riding, in this case, I had to make an exception.  The beer was warm, I just gave it to them, did not like it.

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After feasting in that ocean side place, it became very dark.  All of a sudden a tremendous rain storm got us at night.  It was so dangerous that we had to pull over and try to wait it out.  The guys were very concerned about this rain. They pulled over and some bundled up with some rain gear.  We asked to see if there was a hotel nearby and we got very lucky.  We rode in the torrential rain to find a place that had plenty of rooms with a short guard.  He allowed me to take  a picture of him the next day. 

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The room was disgusting, not up to my standards, but then again, the entire ride south of the US border was not my standards.  I got used to it all. The size of the room was like a little closet with a big fan.  Shortly after we arrived, the power went out.   I was the only one in the group with a flashlight.  It was pouring rain and I had to help the boys with my handy little flashlight settle into their rooms, they were so drunk.  That night I slept very good even though I was very hungry.  At first I was worried about the bugs, but I got used to that too.  The thunder, lighting and listening to the ocean was wonderful, I slept extremely well.

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In the morning the boys were hung over.  I was up at the crack of dawn enjoying the fresh air. I love the day after a storm, particularly near the ocean.  The rains clean the air.

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I loaded my bike and had to wait for the boys. 

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