Archive for the 'Central America' Category

Phoenix to San Felipe

Wow what a day we road 410 miles. Passed thru lots of interesting places including the Imperial Sand dunes were many hundreds of RVs were parked with Dune Buggies and ATVs of every type racing all over. We crossed the border at Mexicali. Fairly smooth, however we need to find Banco Ejercito afterward to register [...]

Bikes bikes bikes

Getting ready for baja

Phoenix to Baja

First morning in Phoenix beautiful desert. Pickup bikes today to prepare for trip.

Darien Gap Attempt

Four of us, Scott/Peter in the JP Earthroamer and James/Charlie in the Tacoma will attempt to reach the Darien Gap today. This is a grueling drive and has many obstacles, including poor roads and military road blocks. We are not attempting a Darien Gap Crossing as at this time that is absolutely prohibited due to [...]

Rifiki – Boquete – Beach’s – Canal

Rifiki lodge was amazing. Toucans in the wild, monkeys, parrots, snakes incredible jungle trees and vines. All of that topped off with some horseback riding and whitewater rafting. Oh did I mention the world’s fastest waterslide, yup. I’m not sure it was engineered to be, but lack of engineering and the lack of a litigious [...]

Border, Beach and Body

Borders, I love borders as much as I hate them. The Nicaragua to Costa Rica border was fairly smooth but some of the lines were a bit long. All in all, another decent experience! We decided to head to a campsite that I was familiar with, so after a stop in Liberia for supplies and [...]

Volcano’s & Bat’s

Being back in Nicaragua is like coming home for us. We realize how much we missed it now that we are here. We made it to Granada for a brief visit and ate at the Euro Café our old usual. I guided us into town forgetting that the LT (the big truck with us) is [...]

Guatemala – Honduras – Nicaragua

Sorry it’s been a while. Guatemala and Honduras offered little in internet access and telephone service from our travel perspective. We were moving quickly as we had a lot of ground to cover and some truck maintenance to deal with. So here is a review of the last week or so of travel. After our [...]

A few links

These are a few links from Scott Brady Publisher of OverlandJournal.com http://expeditionswest.com/EOE/EOE_Blog.php/ his blog about our trip, he’s much better at it. http://www.overlandjournal.com/blog/ Stephanie Brady’s Blog Five Blues Lake Video one of the video clips he threw together in a few minutes. cant wait to see every thing done at the end..