This post covers the second half of my stay in Panama and my trip through the Panama Canal. For my previous adventures with the End of All Roads crew - click here. Casco Viejo After the guys left I moved into a fairly cheap hotel in Casco Viejo (old town). I...
This blog contains my adventures in Panama with the End of All Roads Crew. For my previous Costa Rica blog, click here. The Border The Costa Rica/Panama border was easily the most crowded and hectic that I went through. In a lot of countries I managed to cross at one...
Read about Costa Rica pt. 1 - here. Despite the first impressions at a party hostel in La Fortuna, I liked Costa Rica a lot more than I thought I would. I was prepared for something like Cancun or Cabo - American playground, expensive, less raw and real experiences...
This post begins after my crazy adventure getting out of Nicaragua and losing my passport at the aduana. For that story see my my previous post - Nicaragua - Exodus La Fortuna While I was dealing with car issues at the Nicaragua and Costa Rica borders - I told my two...
NOTE: this post chronicles my getting stuck on the Atlantic side of Nicaragua due to nationwide protests, and my eventual crazy ride out. For actual touristy Nicaragua stuff, see these: Nicaragua West Nicaragua East Background...
NOTE: this post chronicles my time on the Atlantic Coast and Corn Islands in Nicaragua, before I got stuck there with my car due to nationwide protests. For that crazy story - click here. For Nicaragua pt. 1 - click here. Drive to Bluefields I wanted to see some of...
NOTE: this post chronicles my first few days or so in Nicaragua, before I got stuck in Bluefields on the Atlantic coast, with my car, due to nationwide protests. For that crazy story - click here. Border crossing I left out of Choluteca, Honduras - as chronicled here...
We said goodbye to D&D and I left yet another thing behind - this time my CF card in my real camera. The good news is it only had a few pics on it that I didn't already copy to my computer. The bad news is those were the pics I took of the river tour and ruins at...
I headed out of La Palma in the morning - ready for my first solo border crossing. This border might have been the sleepiest and easiest one yet. It still took 2 hours of course. But I didn't need a helper and none approached me. Oh yeah - I dropped a $5 bill on the...
El Salvador and Honduras are the two countries I was most nervous about to start this trip. I even considered not going through El Salvador - as it and Belize are the two countries you don't have to drive through to get to Panama. A few travelers even cautioned...
Antigua Cities I've resided in for a month or more: KC, LA, SF, Houston, Charlotte Amalie - USVI, the bustling metropolis of O'Fallon/Winfield - Missouri, and Antigua - Guatemala. Antigua is currently #1 on my list of places to potentially settle for a bit. The only...
After going through several of the stages of grief on leaving Ernesto and our AirBnb in San Ignacio - including bargaining (maybe we can squeeze another day and just lie around here and eat tasty pork tacos again?) - we finally sucked it up and headed for the border...
I didn't expect much from the Belize mainland but we liked it so much we decided to spend an extra day. First I wandered around a bit near the ferry dock in Belize City and took some pics of the cool old colonial mansions. Then I went to the Belize Museum - which is...
Crossing into Belize from the North I was a little nervous for my first real border crossing - Mexico to Belize. But it couldn't have been sleepier - and Belizians speaking English made the whole thing even easier. We got through leaving Mexico and entering Belize in...
We have now reached the traveling with people phase of our adventure. My good friend and former coworker Shauna accepted my invitation to join me along my journey. Also joining us were her friend Adam (for Tulum) and our good friend and former coworker Hali (for...