here's the scoop if anyone has guat or el salvador ideas:


1) i cross the border south from guatemala to el salvador and cancel my motorcycle import paper for guatemala as i do not plan to return
2) my plans change a month later and i decide to drive back north through guatemala
3) i cross the border north from el salvador to guatemala and cancel my import paper leaving el salvador
4) at the same border, but on the guatemala side i check my bike into aduana and am told that because i had originally left guatemala and cenceled my papers i cannot return for 90 days
5) so my only option is to return to el salvador
6) when i attempt to return a few moments later i am pleasantly informed that i cannot reenter el salvador until 60 days for the same reason
7) so i find myself stranded between 2 borders in no man's land
8) i am put in touch with some shady border lawyers who originally say if i pay $100US they can get me a document called a TO i can use to cross the country (guatemala) to mexico
9) then i am informed that i need a police escort across the country in a maximum timeframe of 24 hours to mexico- it goes from $250 to $400
10) then it gets more complicated and they say its more like $500 +++++ and it keeps going
11) but i never saw an end to this and who knows how far they will go with it- then it could be a chain reaction to mexico
12) i was told that the bike at the border in aduana hands is $30/ day as it sits- so i found a small hotel with a friendly family in the border space and came up with the idea that i would leave the bike with them until next fall (past the 90 day timeframe), fly home, and return to ride it the rest of the way to s america then.
13) once the shady lawyer catches wind of this he relays to me that the goverment will only permit me to leave it at the hotel for 20 days- then renigs knowing i am seeking outside help and says that aduanda will not permit me to leave it at all.
14) left with no options, i fortunately have a helpful friend in el salvador and worked out leaving it in the border space at the friendly hotel- without knowing who (aduana) will try to squeeze me on this so i may never be able to get the bike out, or have it gone when i return.

what a blast!