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Thanks Christian. I emailed the Land Rover guy this morning. Hopefully he has a transmission hanging around. If not, it appears that there is an abandoned 80 series here. I bet I could salvage some parts off of that. :sombrero: Panama Passage! This isn't where you are supposed to park but with...

Hey now. The transfer case is just fine.:elkgrin: The last shop took it upon themselves to rebuild it. That wasn't our decision. It worked just fine before the rebuild. :sombrero: Seriously. I have no idea why they thought it was a good idea to rebuild it. Oh well. Yes, the transmission is...

Truck is supposed to be done today! If everything checks out we will pick it up tonight and hit the border tomorrow morning. We are hoping to make it most of the way through Costa Rica in one day. We want to at least get close to the border so that we can cross into Panama in the morning. We...

Now in Laguna de Apoyo, Nicaragua. This place is highly recommended to any other travelers. We explored around a bit. My advice would be not to explore if you don't know the language. You need to be able to ask where things go and, more importantly, make sure you aren't on someones private...

There has to be someone in Panama that has a few bikes we can borrow and take into the Darien. Maybe a test ride at a Honda dealer? :sombrero:

I guess I never got a good shot of the graphics. I will try to take some when we get back to the truck. Here is the best I can do for now (also shows TreadWrights at 10psi):

The battery compartment is sealed from the passenger compartment. There is a lid on top that slides into a channel and locks down. There are a bunch of vents in the battery box to vent out any gases as well. The batteries were the largest ones I could find that I could fit two of in the space...

To San Juan del Sur we went! We picked up our bikes from the guys at NI.CA.MOTO ADVENTURES early this morning. The guys were great and the bikes were in fantastic condition. We chose to ride the 2011 Yamaha AG 200cc 4-strokes. After getting helmets, insurance, and all of our paperwork squared...

How dare you insult Land Rovers! :sombrero: I rebuilt most of the Defender so that it would be as reliable as a Land Rover could be. In doing that, everything on the truck is brand new, and usually issues pop up when things are brand new or after many thousand miles. We didn't have enough miles...

That should actually read 2000 METERS, but the same response probably applies. :sombrero: In NH our highest mountain is Mt. Washington at 6,288ft. Being at 10k feet was a very cool experience for us. We are excited to hit 16k.

uh oh. Busted transmission. We were making good time too Almost made it out of Nicaragua in under 24 hours. Looks like that will turn into a week in Managua, Nicaragua. The Land Rover dealer the tow truck brought us to. Nobody was home. We eventually found a good shop and are awaiting the...

Well, we have come to a bit of a delay. About 5km out of Managua, Nicaragua, our transmission decided it was time to stop working. It was rebuilt less than 10k miles ago, but apparently that wasn't enough. We don't know 100% what is wrong with it but we do know that the truck no longer moves...

We hope to make it most of the way through Nicaragua tomorrow and are a bit nervous abotu the Nic/Costa Rica border. We have heard bad things about the cops there doing vehicle searches. Hopefully it goes well. We are hoping to be in Panama by Saturday at the very earliest and Monday at the...

Local repair shop in Mexico bending our control arm back into shape. I helped him assemble his Toyota pickup so he only charged me about $5USD for filling the rear diff and bending the control arm. More Moo cows. There is ALWAYS something in the road. Anything you can imagine...it is int he...

Somewhat of a decent update posted to the site: http://time2getlost.com/2011/08/11/tampico-and-some-run-ins-with-the-law/ Moo cow in the road. We drove through some mountains. I think were at 2000meters for a lot of the time. Tampico, land of the crooked cops. Both. Neither of us...

I hope to be down there by the end of August. We have an optimistic goal to be out of Mexico by Sat-Sun, so like 3-4 days from now. We have a detour in Costa Rica and a couple of small stops on the way, but our real exploring starts in South America, and Panama, of course.

I did find a partner and we are officially on the road. Rausch was our first stop along the way. We wanted to test the truck in a somewhat controlled environment offroad before heading out into the world. We are optimistically looking to hit Mexico on Monday, which I guess is tomorrow. :) A new...

In a continuation of my Build Up thread, we are now on the road and headed for Ushuaia. We will be traveling swiftly through Central America and will be stopping at Panama Passage to hang out for a few days and get the truck shipped into Colombia. After Panama, we intend to slow down a bit...

I just had a huge laugh. I'm sitting in a hotel room down the road mooching a shower and some continental breakfast. I log in to post updates and my thread is already updated. Perfect. :sombrero: The tent is great so far. It absolutely poured last night and we stayed perfectly dry. Setup takes...

We are driving very close to there, but probably not stopping. The Mississippi/LA coast is one of my favorite places. One of these days I will get back there to spend some time.