Nicoya or bust

We made Samara yesterday afternoon which is on the Pacific side of the Nicoya Peninsula. After waiting on an exit permit in San Jose that we will need to exit Costa Rica to Nicaragua, we headed towards Nicoya.
There was so much traffic backed up on the road with slow moving trucks, breakdowns and clearing mudslides that is was slow going and came to long stops at times.
At one point the passing lane road was merging to a single lane road and we merged into the single lane in front of an 18 wheel truck who was not at all happy he had to slow down to let us merge – a the first opportunity he came tearing passed us very close to Elsie and I said to Angelika he is going to ride us off the road at the same time it started to be come evident that this is exactly what he was attempting.
I tried to hold Ellie steady as I moved to the shoulder of the road and when it was getting serious I hit the brakes and the truck roared off ahead still pulling his truck all the way over to the side.
Had we not taken this defensive move we most likely would have been gonners today.
We are heading to Montezuma Malpais today along the coast and from what we are hearing we have quite a tricky road ahead with a number of large river mouths to cross.
We also have to stop before noon to call in on the satellite to Dave Mason’s radio show in the USA.
Wish us well and we will make contact from the ‘other side’
Paul and Angelika