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November 2, 2017
Route Through North, Central, and South America
So, this is roughly the route I plan to take through North and Central America.
I mean, keep in mind that this is sort of a back-of-the-envelope sort of plan. Subject to change. Just mainly for planning purposes.
This shows 5,500 miles, approximately. So, that's roughly 3 weeks to get through Central America. Then, about a week on the sailboat from Colon to Colombia. So, Central America should take roughly a month total, I'd say.
Then, South America looks somewhat like this.
So, roughly 7,250 miles in South America. At 300 miles a day, that's about 24 days, or we'll call it a month.
So, it seems to me that the entire trip should take roughly 2 months, and cover about 7,250 + 5,500 miles = 12,750 miles. The earth's circumference is about 24,900 miles, so this is a little over 1/2 of the earth's circumference, so that seems about right. Just as a back-of-the-envelope kind of rough estimate.
So, if we use an average price per gallon of gas in USD = Mexico, then we use $3.75/gal.
Price per gallon of gas in USD:
USA - $2.12
Mexico - $3.75.
Guatemala - $2.76
Honduras - $3.37
Nicaragua - $3.48
Costa Rica - $3.63
Panama - $2.19
Colombia - $2.90
Ecuador - $1.51
Peru - $3.26
Bolivia - $2.61
Argentina - $4.34
Paraguay - $6.02
Uruguay - $5.07
Chile - $4.63
Brazil - $4.65
Posted by Rob Kiser on November 2, 2017 at 12:40 PM
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