I just experienced the same thing in Belize.
Told them that I was going to Punta Gorda, and once there would put the bike on a boat to Puerto Barrios Guatemala. Yet the guy at the customs must have had a brain lapse and wrote "transit for export to Mexico" in my passport, causing me some grief while trying to leave Punta gorda.
I had already hired a few locals to help load the bike into the boat when the customs official told me that what I was doing was illegal, and they could confiscate my bike because of it!
Well, after some discussion, I still have my bike. But it did make for a few stressful moments.
READ WHAT THEY WRITE IN YOUR PASSPORT!
Mike.
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