Through Honk-duras and Nicer*-agua to Costa Rica
*though also awfully honky If you look at a map of Central America you'll see why it only took us 48 hours to transit Honduras from »
El Salvador - anything but a 'shithole'
The month prior to my visit, the President of the United States infamously referred to El Salvador as a shithole country. Anybody with the loosest grasp »
'Bye' Guatemala!
In Guatemala (I noticed this with interest in Mexico too) people often said 'Adios!' to us as we passed. Quite often this was expressed in »
Can you Belize it?
I often have a surprisingly good time in places I either haven't researched much, or have low expectations of. In the case of Belize both were »
Back on the road again/ Farewell to Mexico
Weeks 22-23 and 25 on the road in Yucatán. A month ago I reluctantly left Oaxaca - my home for five months - on an overnight »