We’re officially in the middle of the trip. Geographically. Temporally. We’d covered over 35,000 kilometres in almost five and a half months, and we found ourselves in the home of the Nicaraguan revolution – León. Nicaragua is currently one of the most politically unstable countries in Latin America. And while it doesn’t have the ongoing conflict of a country like Venezuela, or the ongoing notorious reputation of a country like El Salvador, it’s the speed in which Nicaragua became “unsafe” that shocked the world. Overnight, Nicaragua went from being one of the safest and most sought-after travel destinations in the region to being an eerie ghost town. It was like a nuclear bomb had exploded and doors from abandoned shops were still swinging in the breeze. Nicaragua was Central America’s answer to Chernobyl, and we just clocked two incredible weeks there.