Costa Rica Toy

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Hi Derek, Read what I wrote to Powdrhound. That should explain what I have to offer fellow visiting Toy owners. Costa Rica Toy

Hi Powdrhound, Well, the hardest part of our trip, if we could find one, would be entering either Mexico or Honduras. Each of those borders required a four hour paper chase and charged about $100. Honduras charged $40 for just transiting our doberman. We were in Honduras only two hours, yet they charged the same as Mexico which took ten days to cross. Guatemala was free and El Salvador, 5 bucks. Nicaragua was $36. Now that we are back home on the Pacific, we will pay the import tax of $750 and put Costa Rican plates on our Toy. Then, we'll start using our Toy here and be the only motorhome enjoying those famous Costa Rican beaches, mountain streams, hotsprings and lakes. Hope we can get others to come on down. The couple we met in Mexico had been all the way to Panama in their Toy. We can offer a flat lot for Toy owners, which is next to a building we own in Playa Hermosa on the Northwest corner of Costa Rica. This lot is about 1/2 mile from a great mile long beach. We have a dump station on this lot. We could offer 30 amp service, but would need to charge for the base rate of electricity. We built our house on a steep hill overlooking the Pacific so we have no parking there for Toyota motorhomes. If any of the Toy Club members are interested in dropping by, just send us an e-mail and we'll do all we can to help out. Tom and Rebeca

Hi folks, We went through Utah and the canyons between June 28th and July, 3rd. What lovely little backroads to explore. Unlike your 75 mph "modern" Toy, our '84 is happy at 55. We avoid the Interstate system like the plague. We must have been in Yellowstone very close to your tour, sorry we didn't bump into you. We may have been difficult to find in West Yellowstone, as we camped in the woods west of town for free. Did you see bear? A Mom and two cubs walked within five feet of our Toy (with windows up!) Did you go East to Devils Tower? Gorgeous country. Costa Rica Toy Tom

Go for your Alaska trip! Steep hills? Put on a new CD and enjoy it. Your 4-speed is the best. As for the worst roads, in my travels, the Interamericana Highway from Tapachula heading South towards Guatamala City has to be one of the worst. Go slow and wave at the people, but keep your eye out for the "Topes" They are those devilish, concrete barriers that have been installed across the highway to slow down traffic. One mile per hour is the fastest I would drive over these beauties. I estimate that we drove over hundreds in just one hundred miles. Tom

We just arrived in Costa Rica after a two month grand circle of the Rockies beginning in Houston. My Costa Rican wife and our doberman, drove west to the Grand Canyon, then North through the Utah Canyon Country. Then we drove on to Yellowstone Devils Tower, Mt. Rushmore and the Blackhills of South Dakota. It was in the the Blackhills that we decided we'd really miss our new Toy friend if we sold it. We therefore made the monumental decision to drive her back to Costa Rica. We had had no problems with our 1984 Coachman (not even a flat tire) with it's 22R motor and 4-speed tranny. It had served us well, so we decided to keep it and use it in Costa Rica. Our trip through Mexico, Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua and finally Costa Rica was an adventure, but again our Toy kept running well. We met one other Toy couple in Veracruz, Mexico. They were visiting the pyramids. We really enjoyed San Cristobal de Las Casas, a wonderful colonial city in the mountains of Chiapas. We arrived to our home on the Pacific, two months and 9,000 miles after our trip began. Thanks to our Toy, we had a wonderful, memorable trip. Our next trip will be to camp on a waterfront lot we own on the Caribbean. New Club members, Tom and Rebeca Haworth and Brandy Toy trip.doc