For what it worth, I know a guy, Nate the nomad Allen, who has been stuck in Turkey for months. He is making the best of it. In fact, he is having a great time, but it slowed his RTW plans. Maybe for the better.

A friend of a friend stopped by at my home in New Jersey to ask advice on his planned trip from New Jersey to TdF. Over coffee and donuts, I gave him a brain dump of experience and advice based on my travels, and in the end, cautioned him he may have issues crossing borders. Ultimately, he shipped his bike to Columbia and started his trip there.

After our talk, I spent time looking at the US State Department travel advisory website and followed links to individual US embassy sites for the chain of Central American countries. There are notices about each country's entry policies and restrictions. Each of the US embassy sites was organized a little differently, so it wasn't easy to put together the details. My research is a few months old and I wasn't motivated to figure out each country's rules. Suffice to say, there was a range of requirements, COVID tests, and quarantine periods. I assure you, the rules change all the time.

If you are determined to travel now, go for it. Be prepared to get COVID tested in a small window of time before crossing a frontier and potentially quarantine for moving on. And then you have to decide, given the daily exposure to people as you travel is it worth the risk? I am far from risk-averse, but for 2020, and it looks like the first part of 2021 will be spent at home. Yeah, it sucks. I was planning on competing in a raid rally in Peru in August 2020 -- canceled. Crossing my fingers and toes travel will open up by August 2021.

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Peter B
2008/09 - NJ to Costa Rica and back to NJ
2012/13 - NJ to Northern Argentina, Jamaica, Cuba and back to NJ
2023 - Peru, Brazil, Paraguay, Argentina, Chile, Bolivia...back to Peru.

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