Very good advice and to the point. However... this is what can happen. Last October I arrived at the Panama/Costa Rica border at Paso Canoas to be told that I could not enter the country, because the record showed that my bike, a 1991 R100GSPD had not left the country when I was there last time in 1998. How can you prove that you did, indeed, exit seven years ago with the bike in question? Luckily I had a current insurance certificate with me that listed the 1991 R100 together with the bike I was riding, a 2000 F650. I couldn't explain this to the agent (intellectually challenged), but his supervisor got the point, and grudgingly let me in. Lesson: If you have been in any of the Central American countries before, make sure you can prove that you left with the bike, e.g. by producing an old passport, or other documentation. I suspect that the honcho who signed me out in 1998 simply didn't bother to enter the information in the computer, and computers never forget.
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