As the shipping of the vehicles was delayed from Panama to Cartagena (Colombia), we had an impromptu break of 9 days while we waited for the ship to arrive and the contents to be unloaded. While the break did allow for the team to catch up on a bit of sleep and to relax a [...]

Today marked the first time in the entire journey so far, around 14,000km, that the team took any transport other than by road. The flight from Panama to Colombia, unless you take a long boat ride, is the only way to get across the short Darien Gap, an impenetrable stretch of jungle without a single [...]

Our stay in Panama City, which consisted of 5 days, was a mixed experience of frustration, productivity and incredulity. Our first day in Panama City (Thursday) was extremely pleasant however, starting off with a press event and presentation at the brand new Panamanian Canal Authority (ACP) building first thing in the morning. Nik and Clemens [...]

Today marked our final drive of the North American continent! After 65 days of the trip, of which only 37 were spent driving (the rest occupied with press events, conferences and a few days of delay) we were finally in Panama, the bridge between the Americas! As we had a 290 mile leg to reach [...]

While today we only had scheduled a drive of moderate length, around 240 miles, we also had the infamous Costa Rica/Panama border to cross, and this explained why we were packed and ready to go outside the hotel a shade after 5.30am, just as it was getting light! After completely emptying the hotel’s complimentary supply [...]

It would seem that the intensive routine of going to bed late and getting up early has become embedded in our subconsciousness because even after a hideously late night of San Josean nightlife, we were all up, fresh and alert after just 5 hours of sleep…a bizarre but welcome side effect of such a time [...]

Today was yet another early start, and unfortunately without breakfast, but we had something pretty exciting to wake up for. We had been promised a tour of the Miravalles geothermal electricity generating facility about 25km away from Liberia, after which we would continue with our journey until we reached San Jose, the capital of Costa [...]

Despite getting to bed exceedingly late the night before, owing to some dodgy circuit breakers messing up our charging (we got it sorted in the end though!), we were up at 8am for our press event. So after a quick breakfast, we convened downstairs around the pool for an event with an exceptionally high press [...]

Today started bright and early with a breakfast in the Lufassa Power Station canteen. Surprisingly, the breakfast of beans, fried bananas, chicken and tortillas turned out to be among the best food we’ve had so far. Once we had eaten, we had the opportunity to meet Troy who was the engineer responsible for keeping this [...]

Today it was unfortunate that we had to leave the great El Salvadorian hospitality, but after a day’s delay we were itching to hit the road and continue our journey along the one and only Pan-American Highway! And so with our armed police escort back with us, we drove out of San Salvador in just [...]