Teacher on Two Wheels

Week 13 Stats

Start city:  Choluteca, Honduras
End city:  Maderas Beach, San Juan Del Sur, Nicaragua
Total distance traveled:  238
Days on the bike:  7
Average miles per day of riding:  34
Longest day:  62 miles
Shortest day:  16 miles

Total money spent:  $53.00
Average per day:  $7.57

Number of houses in one of the places that was marked as a ‘city’ on my map:  6
Border crossings:  1
Amount paid to leave Honduras and enter Nicaragua:  $10
Number of nights spent camped next to the ocean:  3
Number of times I had to ration my food because I got lost in the jungle:  1
Times I got a bit scared because I got lost in the jungle:  A few
Number of ‘highways’ on my map that turned out to be unrideable cow trails:  2
Number of days in which I spent the majority of the day pushing my bike down the unrideable cow trails:  2.5
Number of times my bike was pulled up and lowered down a mountain by a horse:  3
Number of minutes I spent bending my fork back into shape after the cow trail/horse/jungle episode:  45
Times I was amazed by the strength of my bicycle frame/wheels/tires/trailer:  1,373,698,031 (Seriously, the bike should have shattered into a million pieces from the stress I put it through this past week.  That it’s still rideable and in good shape with true wheels and no flats is nothing short of a miracle.)