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The Puerto Cabezas 350- Ride for Good

by Marcus Pearson 
Photos by Michael Satterfield

If you are looking for an adventure with purpose, Harvest Initiative will be offering multiday motorcycle adventures starting later this year. Founder and lead adventurist Marcus Pearson has been working in Nicaragua for over 25 years and will take you on a trek where tourists don’t go. He sent me this write up about his last ride. The Trek is called the Puerto Cabezas 350, check out his story below. ~ Michael Satterfield


This month I had the opportunity to ride from our base site near Tipitapa to the port city of Puerto Cabezas on the Atlantic coast and back, hitting many points of impact for our development work here in Nicaragua. Our organization, Harvest Initiative, has been active here for many years with education and development projects in conjunction with community groups and churches located in the most marginalized areas. For many years the big single cylinder thumper motorcycle has been my primary means of transportation around the back roads of Nicaragua to visit quickly the least served areas. I program the work of the Nicaraguan team members who come after me with equipment, teaching, materials, or agriculture supplies as the case may be. Harvest Initiative practices an asset-based community development model whereby a community first evaluates its strong points, with our help if needed. Once resources that already exist in the community are identified we help them plan strategies to implement more just use of those resources. In this way, we forge a relationship with the barrios or villages as equal partners that allows us to go forward together each contributing from our strengths. This methodology requires a lot of time spent traveling to the communities multiple times to build trust, learn the true situation and underlying causes and identify key community contact people. So we come back to me and the motorcycle riding around the backcountry of Nicaragua.

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