Size max and budget for Mexico and Guatemala
Hi All, This is my first post. I hope I follow all the rules (well kinda ;). Three part question for ya, please. 1) Is there a big jump in costs, such as maintainence, parts, rv fees and abil...
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Sailorv wrote:
We want to soak up some Caribbean (snorkeling/clear water) and Mayan culture. We are planning on bringing a sailing kayak and a sup maybe.
That sounds exciting. We (me and an expedition partner) kayaked the Mosquito Coast (Central America; Caribbean-side) in a 2-man Folbot (with a Spectra sailing rig) for a month and change.
If you ever require a bone to be set (or dislocate a joint that needs to be reset), look up the Maya "bonesetters" of San Pedro La Laguna (Lago Atitlan, Guatemala)...
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OSM (OpenStreet maps):
I loaded the most recent iteration of the OSM dataset covering Mexico, and overlaid onto the most recent WorldView III super-spectral, high-resolution commercial satellite imagery, and looked at some very remote villages (in Chiapas), and I believe that OSM has the most up-to-date roads coverage I have ever come across for Mexico (developing country roads are updated and corrected hundreds of times per day, real-time and published daily, not once a year).
I built my own super-GPS system, using a GIS software (a navigation system propagated across all our laptops) called: QGIS. I typically have 70 to 400 thematic map layers (depending on country) I can engage whilst "on the road" --including live WMS weather radar layers, sea surface temperatures, near real-time ocean currents, meso-scale layers, and winds at 6 altitudes (all the way up to 90 hPa), and conflict risk polygon layers, and natural real-time disaster layers, etc, etc, etc, etc...
