You will find a hotel or hostal near any city plaza in L.America. Also, the hotels outside of town that rent by the hour are actually of good value, safe and comfortable, work out a deal. Most hotels will let you park the bike inside or in their parking lot. If not, in Colombia for example, i usually parked my bike overnight in the parqueredero nearby for a dollar or less. Secure and cheap. Lodging is rarely a problem anywhere in L.America. For GPS maps i use Worldmap and Wanderlust. I find both to be lacking, but put them together and overlap, they´re not bad. I like the maps from Roughguides, but the truth is, don´t expect any map, paper or GPS to be particularly acurate, but combining a paper map with your GPS map, you will always know where you are. City locations are pretty acurate, but road locations are always changing and out of date...not really important IMHO. Enjoy!
BTW...if your going to S.America, you can take a boat from Portobelo, they usually stop at the San Blass islands for a few days. Choose your captian wisely!
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