Our travel log

For the last 5000km we have been thinking about some of the highlights and lowlights of the trip, keeping in mind we're not much into cities.

Best roads:

• Moab area, anywhere and everywhere
• Road acroos Baja (Mexico) through St Javier
• Back road into Real de Cartoce (Mexico)
• Macoa to Pasto (Colombia)
• Chachapoyas to Cajamarca (Peru)
• Uyuni (Bolivia) to San Pedro de Atacama (Chile)

Best attractions:

• Yellowstone (USA) for wildlife 
• Uyuni region (Bolivia) for scenery
• Tikal (Guatemala) and Macha Pichu (Peru) for ruins
• Cartagena (Colombia) and Sucre (Bolivia) for colonial towns
• Real de Cartorce (Mexico) for cutest little town
• San Cristobel, Mexico for Mayan Chocolate and the artesinias

Low lights:

• 1st month of rain every day
• Californian drivers. Damn pushy. Central american drivers were crappy too.
  
• Bad KFC that resulted in Al shitting on the side of the road in Fresno, USA, a city of >500,000
• Camping with >45 deg heat in Baja (Mexico)
• Bacterial food poisoning, twice (Nicuragua)
• Broken arm (Ecuador)
• Border crossings: Costa Rica to Panama, Ecuador to Peru (La Balsa), Desaguadero (Peru to Bolivia)
• Honduran drivers
• Garbage in Panama
  

Yep, we'd go back (we may even move over):

• Colombia, for the friendly people
• Peru and Bolivia, for more dirt roads
• Mexico, for the best food ever

No, we'll never be back because you drive so terribly and just have a generally yukky feel:

• Honduras
• Panama

(almost on this list is Ecuador, because of the sheer numbers of pushy rude people and bad bicyclists)