There is a sudden change in our plans! We temporarily interrupted our bike trip due to Helen’s mother health problems.

May 4th everything changed. Within two days we re-planed the trip, bought plane tickets, and boxed our bikes and our entire luggage. The next three days have been a tiring sequence of bus, plane, train, car and waiting, over 4 countries and 3 languages! We finally arrived in Helen’s family in Franche-Comté (eastern France, near Switzerland) the evening of May 9^th, exhausted.

These five days have been totally crazy and full of mishaps: the fluctuating plane tickets prices, the hand-made packaging of our luggage, the corruption at the Guatemala border, Francis being sick in the bus, the unusual night spent at Guatemala Ciudad airport, the run in Newark airport to catch the plane to P ... Read More »