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View from the balcony in May 2026 Around 17 months after we left to go on our trip of a lifetime, we were back where we started from. We left winter and darkness, and returned to spring and light. It will take time to process the experience, and to actually believe it - we have done this amazing thing. We have been appreciating our enormous luck to be in a position to be able to do this trip, as well as luck in quite a few situations along the way. No matter how cautious y

Country Border entry Stays Costa Rica Started there Sixaola-Guabito (returning to where we started from) San José Quetzal Cerro de la Muerte Dominical Ojochal San José Panamá Paso Canoas (1st entry) Panama Airport (2nd entry) David Santiago Panamá City Colon Boquete Bocas del Toro Colombia Cartagena Airport (1st entry) Puente Internacional Atanasia Girardot (2nd entry) Cartagena Historic Center Cartagena Manga Barranquilla Buenavista Medellin V

When we entered Panama in 2025, we needed to move on as we had a ship to get to. We saw the west of the country, but nothing of the east. Panama is a small country and there is one road to go to Panama City. Now we drove this same road in the other direction to get back to David, and from there we turned east to reach the border from Bocas del Toro in Panama to Limon in Costa Rica. Our first stop was Boquete. This area in the mountains was completely different from what w

To do a road trip you will need wheels. This is so obvious it is a bit like saying you will need oxygen, but what kind of wheels? In our case we went through a process over several months when we investigated the trip itself, as in what route to take, what place to start in, what the best country to buy a car in would be, etc. We landed on, after a lot of thinking, that we would do a figure 8, starting and finishing in San Jose, Costa Rica, and that the initial trip would b