Surprise, Surprise: We are back home!!!

Hello everyone! We are now back home. Our original plan was to be home around December 18 but you know how plans change. We had the transmission repaired in San Pedro Sula, Honduras but when we left there, headed for Copan, it started acting up again when we were about two hours away. So...we had to make a decision: take the truck back to the mechanic in San Pedro Sula or keep heading north, out of the mountains and towards home? The problem with the truck was that when the transmission got really hot, esp driving in the mountains, it wouldn't go into high gear, and we had to drive alot slower. We decided to continue driving north toward home, out of the mountains and hopefully onto smoother highways. The roads in Belize were good and we took the toll roads through Mexico, which was alot quicker and better than the way down. And then, once on the interstates in the US, no problems!
We missed some stuff we wanted to see in Mexico but still got to visit and camp at a few nice places in Belize and Mexico.
What a great trip! I'll post an "after trip" report in a few days, once I get settled back into life at home.

As much fun as we had, it was still a great feeling to be back in the United States of America!

View from one of our last campsites in Mexico

Bad section of Hwy 180

Back into Mexico

A new house being built next to Erroll's place on the river

Local Police Station in Burrell Boom, Belize

Campsite at Erroll's place on the river

View from the campsite

A cool palm tree

Greg, the owner of Inglewood Campgrounds in San Ignacio, Belize

Trash dump right by the highway in Belize

Popsi feeding the monkeys

Garrett, our guide at the Community Baboon Sanctuary in Belize, feeding the monkeys