Size max and budget for Mexico and Guatemala

Mex wrote:
...maybe a side bus adventure to the IXIL TRIANGLE

....I did some surveying of a fairly significant ruin site and created maps for the Maya language group (a group that preserves the Maya languages and teaches it in primary school) up in Uspantan (part of the "triangle") back in '94. They have an office in the municipal building facing the parque central. If I remember, I spent appx 2 months in Uspantan doing mapping work. The year before, I rode with the UNHCR (based out of Nebaj) way into URNG territory (Batzushile (phonetic spelling) and Tzalbal) in a white Hilux with special marking on the cab roof. That's a spectacular region, with a little-know waterfall. At that time of course, there were zero tourists there (it would have been impossible for a tourist to get by the sandbagged machine gun emplacements leaving Nebaj in that direction; and then there were the PAC to contend with, of course).

One could probably "boondock" in any back-country hospedaje if you ask.

One expe I'd like to do would be on the newly-paved highway traversing the Lagos Montebellos national park (of which I have already camped in, back in 1993-ish when the road was nothing more than a 4x4 track), and continue across the Mex 307 to the Tenosique 203, into into Guatemala's El Peten region through El Ceibo.

IF one can travel by serious 4x4 (say, a 4x4 full-sized truck, with ruggedized light-weight truck camper-- like we have ), then I would recommend the Mex 5 through Coban (a nice place to camp, and fairly near Biotopo del Quetzal; I staged my treks and camping into del Quetzal from the small village of Tactic) up to Parque Nacional Grutas de Lanquin)....then, continue up the On edit: Guat 5 up to Raxruha and onward up to Flores, then on to Tikal (check with Coban for safety near Raxruha; the last time I was there, there were gun emplacements protecting the Rubelsanto oil/gas pipeline from guerrilla-led dynamiting incursions; but that was some time ago....decades LOL). The Raxruha road should be better now (mostly paved), and head into the Peten that way. The last time I did this, it was a 4x4 mudfest the entire way....but the roads are now paved. I'm going to do it again one day before I get too old, with the 3/4 ton 4x4 with my 32 inch DuraTrac tires & truck camper to handle branch trail explorations off the main road....this time on easier main roads LOL.