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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

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

After arriving in Costa Rica 4 April 2025, we needed to get the car through the Revision Tecnica, an annual event for older cars similar...

Places where we stayed at least one night on this trip. Costa Rica Los Chiles Nicaragua San Carlos Juigalpa Matagalpa Estelí Ocotal Managua León Granada Rivas Honduras Choluteca Tegucigalpa Siguatepeque San Pedro Sula Guatemala Puerto Barrios San Luis Tikal/El Remate Sayaxché Santa Cruz Verapaz Huehuetenango Panajachel Antigua Guatemala Guatemala City Belize Belmopan Punta Gorda Belize City Mexico Chetumal Bacalar Tulum Mérida Campeche Tenosique El Salvador Santa Ana Acajutla

After a lovely stop-over with the Isaacs in London we crossed the Atlantic. We had the car serviced, completed the purchases of stuff we...

Harold was coming home, and Karin visited for the sixth time. The last couple of trips in 2017 and 2023 were long enough for us both to...

All the preparations needed in Sweden were done, including the flat being rented. The vaccinations was the part taking the most time as...