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Shipping the Darien Gap: Panama City to Cartagena

The only break in the 29,000-mile stretch of road known as the Pan-American Highway is the 100-mile section of impassible jungle between...

We entered into Panama without even realizing we had crossed the imaginary line between the two countries. The night before we camped at...

Costa Rica is said to be a great country for adrenaline junkies. We’ve had a few adrenaline rushes since we got to Costa Rica, and not...

We heard the horror stories. Border crossings from hell, aggressive "helpers" swarming the car, threats of multiple corrupt police shake...

Paula and I entered El Salvador on Saturday, July 18th. We had a smooth border crossing with our friends Janice and Gregor, and were...

First, the border crossing: Clearing out of Belize was pretty simple. We cancelled the vehicle permit, cleared customs, got our passports...

We made our way back down to the border of Belize as fast as possible. Camping once again in Chetumal before our border crossing....

Belize is our first foreign border crossing. We decided to do our border run into Belize instead of Guatemala because we heard it was an...

Hola Amigos! (by paula) We finally crossed our first border on November 28th. It was pretty easy - about 20 minutes all in. The border...