Problematic Parts

So we had a slight change of plans, we were headed up to Fortuna to see the volcano but about 2 hours out of San Jose our brakes started failing coming down from the mountains. To top it off just after we dicided to call it quits for the day, due to a strong fear of dying, we got stuck in another 3 hour long traffic jam. Its not fun driving without brakes on an empty road but its a helluva lot worse when you´re bumper to bumper. Being Brendans bithday he started celebrating a little early in the back while we were stopped, we tried our best to catch up with him when we got into town but I don´t think we ever did. We were holed up for two days, in what turned out to be the really cool town of Quesada, while we got a local guy to work on the car. But its all good news, we got the brakes fixed, not to mention the gear that we were missing that runs out speedometer and odometer and we´re back on the road. So officially now we have travelled about 360 kilometers even though its unofficially more like 3860 km. but we´ll do a better rough estimate and let you know. So last night we went to some hotsprings near the volcano Arrenal, we didn´t get to do much else because of our little setback but it was cool nonetheless. Today we made it back into Nicaragua and ferried the car over to the volcanic island Ometepe. Which also marked the end of Colin´s driving marathon. The car is in Colin´s name so unfortunately, due to local laws, the nine or ten days we were in Costa Rica he was the only one able to drive. We just got in a few hours ago so we still haven´t seen all that much yet but apparently the town fair is going on tonight so it should be kinda cool. That´s all for now but we´ll keep you posted.