...and if it needs to be a Toyota...

...check out my Toyota Gallery, it has been up-dated and you can now check out almost 400 pictures of Toyotas that do their duty on, along or aside the Panamerican Highway. Enjoy!

Corona Mark II, X30 in Honduras

40 series Land Cruiser in Leon, Nicaragua

Corolla in Casco Viejo, Panama

A whole family, just by chance in Panama City

RAV4, Land Cruiser Prado, FJ Cruiser, a 3rd generation US version 4 Runner and

way in the back another FJ Cruiser

Doesn't need to be a Toyota

Here is a nice story and beautiful pictures that have been published by BBC about Guther Holtorf who is travelling the world in his Mercedes G Wagon. In his car he's done almost 10 times as many miles as I have done so far with my Toyota and Gunther has been on the road over 10 times longer than I. Unfortunately I have not yet met Gunther on the road. But who knows...

Photo Source: blog.match-photo.de

Happy Trails, Gunther!

I'll be right back...

...he said 1982, and here he is! ET is back, by now he rides the bike himself but he's still covered up in that white towel. I have seen him, here in Panama!

ET!

ET 2012, grown up

ET 1982

More River Crossings

Crossing rivers doesn't always require a snorkel and all that equipment but quite regulary even when hiking in tropical central America it requires me to cross rivers, funny though, I don't go as deep as I would with the truck. But honestly I don't really want to go as deep to need a snorkel when hiking.

Did you know?

Underwear grows at trees. I found an underwear tree in Panama. Don't believe it? See the picture below for prove.

The Bus to Hell?

Haven't we gotten used to buses that show the destination they are headed for on top of the windshield? I am used to that. Klick on the picture and check it out!

So - what does it mean when you have Hitler on the top left corner and Osama Binladen on the top right corner of a bus' windshield?

Heading straight to Hell?

Soundtrack

Panama Canal

I am totally fascinated by the Panama Canal, its engineering and even more so by the precision of which this huge vessels are guided through the locks. Here a couple of first pictures for you, more to come: 

At the Gatun Locks, the largest set of locks in the system

This is RoRo (roll on roll off) ship that carries factory new Korean cars.

At this point being pulled in to stage one of the Gatun Locks, on the Atlantic side.

The high power electric locks are what pulls the vessel through and

at the same time what keeps it in place.

Even for the ship's crew a spectacular event.

Absolutely amazing with what precision that huge sucker is guided through.

And getting back down on to see level, watching it is like seing 

those huge vessels riding and elevator.

Little room for errors.

While I was driving up to the Gatun Locks. Looks unreal, doesn't it?

At the Miraflores Locks, on the Pacific side of the Canal. Another car carrier.