Leaving El Salvador with New Looks

Our morning ride got us to La Union where we found a cool Internet cafe and had a hard time leaving. We looked into taking a boat across the gulf straight to Nicaragua, but decided we ought to actually ride through Honduras. There was a beauty salon just across the street from our Internet perch, so the two of us got our hair cut for a total of US $7 before we were ready for an afternoon push into Honduras. We stopped at an air-conditioned gas station near the border and spent our small change pigging out on pop and chips before checking out of El Salvador in good spirits and with new looks (no more beard for Karl, that thing was getting a bit ratty!)Read more