The (updated) Plan

The rough plan is to travel the Pan-American Highway, meeting and talking with people along the way. Below is a rough guide to where we’ve been and where we hope to go.

We left Chelatna Lake Lodge on Sept. 6. despite our desires to stay longer and drove north to Prudhoe Bay, Alaska, the northernmost town in the world accessible by car.

After a whirlwind week and a half down Alaska, Canada and the northern U.S., we spent nearly a month organizing, packing and gathering in Wyoming.

On Oct. 29 we left Arizona for Mexico. We spent slightly more than a month in Mexico, traveling from Hermosillo to Bahia de Kino, San Carlos, Alamos, El Fuerte and up the Copper Canyon railroad to Creel. From Creel we went north to Chihuahua and then back down through the center of Mexico stopping in Hidalgo de Parral, Durango, Zacatecas, Guanajuato, Mexico City and Oaxaca. 

We left Oaxaca, and after 28 hours on buses arrived in Cancun, to travel south to Xcalak for some fishing and then into Belize.

Unfortunately, we only spent two nights on mainland Belize before entering Guatemala and staying in Flores, Coban and Antigua. We stopped in San Pedro Sula, Honduras, for two nights and spent Christmas in Managua, Nicaragua, waiting for Christine’s parents. 

From Managua we went to Leon and Granada, then stayed with some Wyoming folks with a wonderful house in Costa Rica on our way to La Fortuna. We then continued south to San Jose and Puerto Viejo, Costa Rica, spent four nights in San Cristobal island in the Bocas with a friend from Alaska, headed west to Panama City then back across the country to the tiny town of Carti to catch a sailboat to Sapzurro, Colombia.

From Sapzurro we took another boat to Turbo, then buses north into Cartagena and back south again to Medellin and Bogota.

When we leave Bogota we plant to spend a couple nights in Cali before heading into Ecuador.

Time is running short now, with less than a month and a half to reach El Calafate, Argentina, in southern Patagonia.

We are still not sure if we’re going to swing through Bolivia on our way down or travel only through Chile until Argentina. But, we do know our final destination is Ushuaia, Argentina, commonly known as the southernmost city in the world.