Posted in on Jun 4th, 2013 Comments Off on La Serinidad – 5/31/2013
To say that the Baja is beautiful is understating the obvious. It is an awesomely beautiful desert situated on a spine of earth that runs south for over a thousand miles from nearly the US border. The peninsula split off the mainland of the North American continent and has it’s own distinct look and feel. […]
Posted in on Jun 1st, 2013 Comments Off on Leaving La Paz – 5/31/2013
We dock about 30 minutes late and don’t start disembarking for another hour. The trucks and trailers on the upper level have to be off-loaded before we can get the cars off. That, of course, is only the start of the Byzantine procedure of leaving the port. First, check off each license plate from the […]
Posted in on Jun 1st, 2013 Comments Off on Leaving Mazatlan – 5/30/2013
We have to be in Mazatlan at the ferry for check in by 1:00PM for a 4:00PM departure and ferry check ins are usually madhouses. Some like the Dover to Calais ferry across the English channel are primarily for the onslaught of tourists to and fro the UK. The vessels are big and carry huge […]
Posted in on Jun 1st, 2013 Comments Off on To Mazatlan – 5/29/2013
Yesterday we did get going early. The road was great (it should be – we’re paying enough in tolls) and the traffic light. And now that we were farther away from Guatemala and Chiapis, the checkpoints have spaced out quite a bit. There are still plenty of checkpoints but now many of them are agricultural […]
Posted in on Jun 1st, 2013 Comments Off on Tapachula to Oaxaca – 5/27/2013
John is sitting at breakfast in the hotel with a plate full of Mexican breakfast. And it’s disappearing fast and he’s looks like one happy traveler. His only comment, “This breakfast makes me feel like I’m home.” He’s not much for morning chatter at breakfast. The first order of business,an important order at that, is […]
Posted in on May 30th, 2013 1 Comment »
If you look at a map of Central America, you’ll have to search for tiny El Salvador. (Hint: Pacific coast,halfway down.) That, of course doesn’t mean that it doesn’t have it’s own rules and one fof those rules was that we only had 24 hours to “transit” El Salvador. We we entered El Salvador, John […]
Posted in on May 27th, 2013 1 Comment »
After we checked into the hotel, I decided that we could at least solve the document check problem. I took the original document that list Nicaragua as a country excluded for coverage and clipped the the image of the page. Then with a little PhotoShop magic, I very carefully erased the words “and Nicaragua” and […]
Posted in on May 27th, 2013 Comments Off on Crossing the Frontier into Nicaragua – 5/24/2013
The clock in the room says it’s 5:00 AM, the phone says it’s 5:00 AM, my watch says it’s 6:00 AM and the phone alarm hasn’t gone off. It’s a bright almost sunny morning. My watch, obviously, is wrong. We must have lost another time zone coming into Costa Rica. Both of us try to […]
Posted in on May 24th, 2013 Comments Off on Into Costa Rica – 5/23/2013
Santiago is about 230 kms from the frontier with Costa Rica. It’s a two lane road but in most places the pavement is good. The weather has improved, it’s stopped raining and the early morning sun is out. We make good time and we get to the frontier before noon. Like the frontiers in South […]
Posted in on May 24th, 2013 1 Comment »
We check out at 6:45 and the desk says that the driver that Sr. Boris has sent for us is waiting in the lobby. Out to the taxi, load up the bags and we’re off to Colon at 6:50 under a dreary, gray overcast sky that looks like any minute the rains will start again. […]
