Coningsby Inn in Belize City - I like Belize already. |
Improvised secure parking. A Chinese supermarket in Dangriga, Belize. |
Just 7 miles, the road to Placencia, Belize. |
The main street in Placencia. |
Jaguar, Belize. |
Tigre! |
Felis Concolor. What do you think Dev? |
Comfort in the Jungle. Relaxing at Pook's Hill, Belize. It is worth the drive down the muddy roads. |
Wild Toucan, Pook's Hill, Belize. |
The great Ceiba Tree in Tikal. In Mayan mythology it connects the underworld, material world and the heavens. |
Tikal Ruins. Guatemala. |
Kids work hard in Guatemala. Selling phone calls on the streets of Coban, Guatemala. |
Shoeshine, Coban, Guatemala. I pay 10X the going rate after haggling down to half price, hence the smile |
Telephone girl and shoeshine boy. You can get Maya girls to crack a smile, impossible with Maya women who avoid eye contact. |
A nicely set up KLR. Mel has put 85,000 miles on it. |
Pimp my schoobus, Guatemala style. |
Lake Atitlán, Panajachel, Guatemala. |
Beggar in Panajachel. |
Two Americans from Wisconsin on a Harley!! in Antigua, Guatemala. |
Guatemalan police bikes with Uzis. I want one, I bet one way or another heh heh heh it cuts tailgaiting waaaaay down. |
Private security wearing light Class II body armor and carrying the ubiquitous "Doce" for interpersonal conflict resolution. |
Guatemalan Mayan women even put their purse on their head rather than carry it. |
Take the friggin picture.....quickly...before I burst into flames! |
Volcano Pacaya near Guatemala City |
Pacaya |
Pacaya |
Pacaya |
Magical Guatemalan scenery |
I told myself I wasn't going to Guatemala City. Why? Because I'd get lost for hours. C'mon,C'mon GPS. |
Chiquimula marketplace |
Check out the half pound charges on the far right. Only 14 cents each. I hope they are stable, my luggage is full of them. |
Copan, Honduras |
Mom worries I´m not eating well. |
Honduran police, a sweet Galil ! AK47's are reliable pieces of junk but check out the modified charging handle and mag release. |
Nice digs in Granada, Nicaragua. Cost almost as much as days worth of bribes to the corrupt Nicaraguan police. |
Beautiful Granada. |
A very old Singer footpowered sewing machine. Still in service on the streets of Granda, Nicaragua. Nacatamales on the left. |
No driver´s license is required to bring your horse into Managua, Nicaragua. |
Surfing the Net with Dave´s kids at the Quintero´s Managuan compound. |
New chain, sprockets, clean airfilter, reattached the front end (which fell off when I released the cosmetic bolts) |
Selenia´s neighbors are in the piñata business. Managua, Nicar. |
Piñatas |
Flor de Caña Girl, San Juan del Sur. |
San Juan del Sur, Nicaragua |
Monteverde overlooking the Gulf of Nicoya, Costa Rica. |
Orange Kneed Tarantula, Monteverde, Costa Rica. |
A tree under attack by a strangler fig. Spread by fruit bats the seeds germinate on a tree and work their way down. |
A strangler fig which has completely destroyed its host. Now it becomes the best animal hotel in the cloudforest. |
Looking up, Monteverde Cloudforest, Costa Rica. |
Howler Monkey(Mono Congo), , Monteverde Cloudforest, Costa Rica. |
Howler Monkey (Mono Congo), Monteverde Cloudforest, Costa Rica. |
Monteverde Cloudforest (Mono Congo) , Costa Rica. |
The dirt road up to Monteverde, Bay of Nicoya in the background. |
Quaker pastures & cloudforest near Monteverde. The Quakers refuse to pave the road. The Vstrom is not impressed. |
Look what I found in the showroom in San Jose, Costa Rica. Strip it down ! My bike used to look like that 30,000 miles ago. |
Hurry up and wait. Socialized medicine in Costa Rica. |
Selling pigeon food, San Jose, Costa Rica |
A real time lottery, prizes every 5 minutes, in San Jose, Costa Rica. |
Volcano Arenal, Costa Rica |
Being on a mud rut in the jungle is not the same thing as being lost. That, for instance, is Volcano Arenal. |
I spotted these spider monkeys on the side of the road near Arenal. |
I started out photographing the monkeys alone, but I was spotted by a tour bus greatly increasing the number of monkeys present. |
Been trying for weeks to photograph an iguana but they run when spotted. This guys rustling around on my hotel room's roof. |
Sweet twisties down to Dominical, Costa Rica. |
Panamanian Customs Fixers. They provide bike security, runners for paperwork and cold beer on both sides of the border. |
Termin@lmatic is approved by John Ashcroft and the Dept. of Homeland Security. |
Panamanian Dengue-o-meter |
Outgassing Nitrogen after scuba diving with an Austrian and Basque seperatist at Iguana Island, off the coast of Pedasi, Panama. |
The solitary park ranger on the island is waiting to bill us if we set a foot on shore, but we aren't falling for it. |
Panama's Azuere Peninsula. Cattle Ranching country with nice beaches. |
Panama City |
Booking passage to S. America for one 660 pound Japanese lady. |
Watching the gyrations of the financial markets above Panama City. |
Carnival is starting in Panama. |