Mary is no longer available for RV traveling, but we remain good friends.
Because we have 4,000+ postings, I’ve invited her to continue posting entries on this blog.
The motorhome is parked at Shady Acres Mobile Home and RV Park in Yuma, Arizona. I expect to be here a couple of months hiding out from the cold, wet weather. Average temperatures in January are high 69.6, low 47.6. In February, high 73.8, low 50.1. As nice as Yuma is, I wouldn’t want to be here in August. 🙂
Recently I’ve been running blogs about my 2004 Central America trip. While here, I’m intending to continue those postings while also alternating with Yuma area blogs.
Today, I’m taking you back to my…
2004 Central America trip…
This trip ended up being 343 days and 16,000+ miles through the back-country of Mexico, Belize, Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Costa Rica and Panama. 11 rigs started the trip, within a week we broke into three smaller groups for ease of traveling. Only myself and one other rig went the full, pre-planned route. All the others dropped out for various reasons. All returned safely to the United States. I’m planning to show these photos, more or less, 10 a day, whenever I’m not doing something else deserving a blog entry. FINALLY, it must be remembered these photos are prior to my switching to digital in 2006. The films were developed during our trip and the lack of quality control sometimes is plainly evident.
Today…Panama (south-bound) #11…
As always you may left click upon an image to see an enlarged view and then click once again to see an even larger view…
We are still at Portobello, Panama. The next three photos were taken of the harbor from a nearby hill, looking right to left…
We crossed many different styles of bridges during our trip. On a day trip we went 27 miles beyond Portobello to explore the remaining coastline. Rather than try to describe the road conditions, I’ll simply state it took three hours to cover the distance in the Bronco!…
We stopped at the Village of Nombre de Dios (Name of God), founded in 1520. It was the primary shipping point for the shipment of gold to Spain until 1590. Because it was just an open bay and difficult to defend against pirates is why the Spanish changed the trans-shipment point to Portebello…
We drove through the small villages of Viente Frio, Palaque and Miramar (Look at the Ocean). Below we see a creative way to limit the weight of vehicles crossing the bridge…
Beautiful Atlantic Ocean surf…
According to the locals, all that remained up the road was a couple of small dusty villages…
We had reached the end…no more roads…
Nowhere else to go! We are at an eastern point of longitude equivalent to being at Washington, D.C. We have driven the motorhomes 6,644 miles since our departure from Gila bend, Arizona on January 2nd…today is June 26th. A nice happy two hours adjacent to our rigs. I used the occasion to break out a bottle of champagne to toast our successful achievement! Tomorrow we begin our trip back home. We still expect to cross back into the United States at Douglas, Arizona somewhere between November 1st and December 18th…
You can read all about Panama by clicking this link…https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panama
Here’s my trip website link…http://www.lulu.com/spotlight/panamaorbust
I hope you enjoyed the photos.
Yesterday was sunny and 65 degrees. Forecast for today is cloudy with a shower and 61 degrees.
Enjoying nice weather is another joy in the life of a full-time RVer!
The red dot on the below map shows my approximate location in the State of Arizona. You may double left-click the map to make it larger…
Enjoying 65-75 degree temperatures with low humidity most of the year is a primary joy in the RVing lifestyle!
“Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance you must keep moving”…Albert Einstein
My current travel rig is a 2006 Fleetwood 26′ Class A Motorhome and a towed 1986 Ford Bronco II, Eddie Bauer Model. This photo was taken in the desert at Slab City near Niland, California…
On October 27, 2012, I created a two-minute video titled America The Beautiful. The music America The Beautiful is by Christopher W. French. The photos, which I randomly selected, are from the states of Arizona, California, Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Massachusetts, Mississippi, Montana, New Mexico, North Carolina, Oklahoma, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Texas, Tennessee, Washington and West Virginia (not shown in that order)…are mine. Yup, That’s me standing in front of the Post Office in Luckenbach, Texas…Y’all!
Click this link to start the video. Make sure you have your speakers turned on and go to full screen asap.
http://youtu.be/FfZUzEB4rM8
If you would like to see my YouTube videos, click this link… http://www.youtube.com/user/JimJ1579/videos
There are more than 600 photo albums in my Picasa Web Albums File. To gain access, you simply have to click this link… https://picasaweb.google.com/jimjrver
If you have not checked out my Ramblin Man’s Photos Blog, you can do so by clicking this link…http://ramblinmanphotos.wordpress.com/
For more information about my books, click this link:
http://www.lulu.com/spotlight/panamaorbust
All original works copyrighted – Jim Jaillet -2016
Que Sera, Sera... Whatever Will Be, Will Be... 
Great Post.