Travel and Hospitality

This website is purely a passion project of four dedicated travelers. It started when two couples who were driving the Pan American Highway randomly met for some beers in Puerto Escondido, Mexico. When we were traveling (by car) in Latin America, we were all frustrated by the lack of any central source of information about driving in Latin America, be it information about border crossings, corrupt police, road conditions, hotels with secure parking, good campsites, etc. Between the 4 of us we had 2 graphic designers, a software developer, and a budding website developer, so we holed up in San Juan del Sur Nicaragua for 2 weeks in January 2009 to build the initial Drive the Americas site using Mediawiki. We all learned a lot and continued to contribute and work on growing the Drive the Americas community throughout our travels.