With the car back in great shape, we headed on from San Gil to Villa de Leyva. We weren’t too excited about visiting “another colonial town.” Villa de Leyva turned out to be a very pleasant surprise, with nice architecture (all houses are built in a similar style, white walls and mediterranean tiles), mostly Colombian […]
We’ve been seeing a number of different solar panel setups while on the road (most of them probably fairly small compared to the typical US RV). Ours has worked well for us, but I just recently helped troubleshoot someone else’s setup, and there are some lessons that may help improve on common problems. The setup was […]
On Christmas day, we finally arrived in South America. Cartagena was our first stop here, being the port city in which we arrived. It’s a beautiful old town that was fairly crowded, but most of the tourists here were Colombian. We spent a day strolling around the city, eating ceviche and enjoying the atmosphere. Immediately […]
Sat, Dec 20 6am: Drop Nikki’s sister off at the airport in Liberia. Drive 450km to the Panama border. 2pm: Arrive at the border. Check out of Costa Rica. Get ripped off by the exit fee people, skip the line of the bus that has just arrived (cutting off 45 minutes of wait time) 2:30pm: […]
This will be a rather short post, covering our 2 ½ weeks in Honduras, Nicaragua and Costa Rica. Which is fair, since we didn’t spend all that much time there. After Guatemala left us a little rattled despite an otherwise great experience, we were looking forward to a new country. We crossed over into Honduras […]
We left Belize early on a Sunday morning to cross over the border. This crossing was actually pretty easy – nobody cared about Leika, and they even made copies for us rather than having us run to the next copy shop, after pressing them a little. As we left the border, the roads were amazingly […]
You may have been wondering why we have been radio-silent for the last few weeks. We had a bit of a reality check when our car got broken into and we lost our electronics and some cash, which was cause for some soul-searching about why we’re on this trip and what we’re doing wrong. We’ll […]
Crossing into Belize was straightforward, although a little bit more involved than crossing into Mexico 2 months earlier because of Leika. We won’t cover the general crossing in detail, since many others have done so already (example), but here are just a couple of notes. Overall the process took around 1:30 hours. To cross over […]
After climbing the volcanoes of central Mexico, we had to rush a bit to make it out to the Yucatan as Nikki’s parents were flying into Cancun to spend a few days with us. Still, we did want to at least get a glimpse of Oaxaca and the surrounding mountains, but a more thorough visit […]
Since we might be encountering diesel of dubious quality south of the border (or perhaps better, who knows), it’s a good idea to know how to change your fuel filter. We buy OEM filters at the Mercedes dealerships and carry a few spares, just in case. They’re about $50 and probably a bit cheaper online. […]