(Barroeta/Escobal &Calle Nueva)

A quick post from my phone.

Yesterday morning, I rode down to Caldera on Anansi, my new Hero XPulse, which I will introduce soon in a separate post. I went to practice riding on gravel with her — and enjoyed the little loop on the right at San Juan de Dios. It’s about 30% gravel. I like all little roads that are undeveloped. 🙂

After breakfast in Caldera, I decided to drop Anansi off at Honda San Ramón so they could install a more solid base for the trunk. I am learning little by little that many consider the Hero XPulse a decent motorcycle with a good reputation. Good to know.

When I got home, I decided to check out Calle Barroeta, which I had originally intended to do on my way back. I wanted to see if it would be OK for me to do it alone on Ananasi. I took Pepper for a ride in the car. 🙂

Calle Barroeta is part concrete, part asphalt, and mostly gravel on the way down to Escobal. It has some sections with very loose rocky gravel (as I remembered it from two other trips; one on Storm, my Honda Tornado). I don’t think I would like that on little Anansi.

Down closer to Escobal, it has some paved parts, and then is paved.

I then headed over to do RECON on Calle Nueva in Atenas because I had heard some of the uphill parts had been paved.

This one-lane route is gravel, with some rutted, rocky parts. I assume it would be challenging during heavy rains.

In any case, I enjoyed my double-whammy day. And thought technically the afternoon trip does not qualify for a motorycle-riding blog, I want to share it as informative. 🙂 Today I ride on Sahara with another group. Yay!