Granada Nicaragua ...with a small delay getting there

The next morning Chris plugged his tire in the hotel lot. He used a stop n go mushroom plug. After fixing the tire and feeding both motos about ½ quart of oil, we head on to Granada Nicaragua. In order to avoid the major Nicaragua city of Managua we had to take a little used and maintained route. Sure enough Chris hit one of the uglier potholes and blew that plug right out. So in 95 degrees, no shade trees, dusty road Nicaragua CA 3, we replace the plug. This time we used a traditional string plug and glue. While we were working on the tire a young man, no more than 16 years old, approached us. We could see he was not doing well in the hot sun. He asked if we could share some of our water which of course we did. Eventually we made it to better pavement and the road to Granada got interesting.

Granada will not be replacing Antigua as the favorite city but it is a strong competitor. The city sits on Lake Nicaragua which must be about the size of lake Erie. Lake Nicaragua is connected to the Caribbean Sea so Granada had a substantial port in colonial times. Granada is Central America’s oldest colonial city founded in the early 1500s. Similar to Antigua, Granada also got destroyed several times but by angry Europeans wanting to take control and or wipe it off the map.

Our Hotel. It was nice and cheap.

With a place for the motos.

We won’t be forgetting those two days anytime soon. I think both Chris and I were ready to hit the pause button for a bit. We did just that next in Costa Rica and it was enjoyable.