travelling from ohio through mexico and central america on motorcycle

Anybody currently living in mexico or central america?? Im planning on volunteering for a couple of months and would love to meet up with some other hip forumers while im there...

or anybody have any advice for me ?? thanks

 

some pictures

 

mooooorree.... currently in texas

 

hey bro... how about some details? budget? fuel costs? i'm curious...

 

Ive taken 4500$ with me... not on my person of course and a credit card. Im getting around 50 mpg on the bike... Hotels have gotten quite expensive... had planned to camp out but all the way down to san antonio its been to cold...

 

You'll feel alot better if you carry eyedrops and use them every time you stop for gas. On a long tour, plan for at least one day of doing nothing. Time is the ultimate luxury, and can mean the difference between a vacation and an endurance run. Also, be realistic about your daily mileage. In really scenic areas, 150 miles may make a very full day. Don't assume you can achieve highway mileage on good back roads. Your life is an open road. Expect nothing. It's pleasure in its purest form, like swimming nude, TV without commercials, sex without a condom. Fer-de-lance....almost as dangerous as the bushmaster.

 

man.... I honestly have to tell ya... you bring a smile to my face..... I mad it through mexico and im now in guatemala... time is on my side

 

You smell bad and you look bad, but you feel so good. Rejuvenated. Reborn. Refried. Remember that feeling. With every adventure there is always an element of risk, it's a bummer when kids wave and spit or throw stones.

 

Awesome… Looks fun

There are some great beaches that are hard to get to in Nicaragua I would love to have a bike like that and go exploring.

Keep a good eye on your bike down there don’t leave it unwatched.

 

he survived mexico(barely from what he said in another thread) im sure he has it made now..

hey schwahead,did ya almost get kidnapped in mexico ? that was our running bet..

do tell when ya got time to elaborate...:cheers2:

 

Alright guys... finally found a internet cafe with decent connection.... sooo what happened was I was in Catemaco... parades goin on all day... I try to stay in hotels away from the city or main road. Heard drum circles s I figured Id make my way down chilolin at a bar for awhile when some guy starts screemin at me... I dont speak spanish so the bartender translates for me and the guy wants my money,passport,and keys to my bike... well no fuckin way am i goin to do that ..... I offered him 100pesos to tell me about the route I was taken through mexico... he took the money and still continued to screem about wanting everything.... well I figure its time for me to bail before I get really drunk turn to take my last drink and the bartender hits me up side the head with a liquor bottle... next thing I know im down in alley with this dude on top of me hands around my next screeming... all my shit from my pockets was laying around. but my passport and credit cards and most of my money was in a traveller pouch around my leg. I laid there in shock a couple seconds then once I realized what was happening I grabbed my knife flipped it open and stuck it in his thigh... He got off me and was yelling ... kicked him in the face and ran back to my hotel threw my shit on the bike and bailed the fuck outta there....... slept in the junlge off the side of the road on my thermarest..... he maybe got 20 bucks worth from me and a hole in his leg.... I got a gash down my face from????????? and a lump on the head... but im alive!!!!!! not to scare people away... most of the people I met were very nice and eager to help with directions and such....

 

Hostile training exercises are hugely constructive. Even in an exercise it's hard to keep smiling and the tone of the conversation agreeable, when your friend is on his knees with a pistol pointed at his head.There's nothing quite like being confronted by a bunch of testosterone-fuelled warriors sporting Kalashnikovs, the nerves all too real even in role play.

 

That’s good you made out OK,
I have spent sometime wandering around Mexico and Central America, I don’t go to drinking establishment anymore maybe only with a group of well know locals that I’ve know for a while, there is just lots of problems around the bars and cantina down there..

Be careful in the big central American cites call ahead to places and make reservations for you and your bike to be inside safe by dark..
In those cites anything worth more then $75 has security with a submachine gun guarding it 24/7. Your bike is worth about 5 year of wages in a lot of those countries.

If you explore around the country side a while you will probably want a good handgun it will increase your life expectancy by a lot… they are cheap and plentiful and legal in Honduras and Nicaragua, El Salvador it is illegal for foreigners to own guns not sure about Costa Rica and panama.

At sketchy military roadblocks friendliness can go along way hand out some cigarettes maybe some playing cards if you get stuck awhile.

I have had the best times in Nicaragua, Honduras and Costa Rica just awesome county I like the Nicaraguan people a lot.

But watch your back.. people are poor and the crime rate is insane.

 

gracias amigo.... lots of good info... how about carryin a gun through borders?

 

Well I have never been searched at a Central American border but... I don’t know if I would take a gun through.

Laws are different in Central America... The police can just make shit up and get some money and ignore other shit.

Borders into Honduras, Nicaragua, Guatemala are easy you can pay like $5. and not even wait in line at most of the crossings.
El Salvador has a sketchy border and they are very paranoid, they also don’t like Americans and charge them $10. plus no foreigners are allowed guns (I think to make life more difficult for mercenaries).

Bringing guns into Costa Rica is illegal, Mexico it is highly illegal 7 years in prison.
It probably not a good idea to do to much main road traveling with a gun your hotels will almost always provide security.

But if you stay somewhere for a while and do a lot of excursions in the country and camping they are good to have.. A lot of those towns are so poor and they have tons of guns left over from the wars alot of them are known for kidnapping people.

 

http://www.************/home.php?#/home.php?ref=home hey folks Ive made it to san juan del sur nicaragua.... i invite you to all ride along ive got a couple hundred pictures up on facebook my name is brock graves and im from ohio