It's not easy to get good, detailed maps of Central America, and you need them if you're going off the main routes.

Note that this site has complete maps from the GPS track of our trip. You can see all of them under "Route Maps" in the menu. The Central America route maps and info are here.

For maps, we used the following:

• Guatemala: The Rough Guide Map of Guatemala and Belize. (Make sure to get the current edition.) It was generally accurate and indestructible. ITMB also has a Guatemala map which is widely available, but all of their maps are hopelessly inaccurate. Be very careful with any map, but with an ITMB map you have to always be suspicious.
• Honduras and Nicaragua: We had to use the widely available ITMB maps, as nothing else was available.
• Costa Rica and Panama: There is an excellent Rough Guides map to Costa Rica and Panama in one map.