Expenses to drive from Brownsville, TX, USA to Corozol Town, Belize

Travel cost summaries

I have finally summarized our expenses for the blog.

We had a total budget of $2350 to drive thru Mexico based on 8 days on the road, $40/day for food, $50/night for a place to stay, 2,000 miles to drive getting 10 mpg, diesel at the cost of $3.15/gallon, and other unforeseen costs at $1,000.

Our actual expenses amounted to $1,144.71. Some of our differences were as follows: we spent a total of 11 nights in Mexico, diesel cost about $2.02/gallon, we got about 11mpg, we ate all but 1 meal in the camper, and nightly camping fees were running around $15/night.

So our drive down cost around $1,200 less than we expected (hooray!).

Getting over the border into Belize cost around $1,130 less than we had budgeted. Our budget was pretty much a shot in the dark based on internet postings that ranged from being what we found to be very accurate to way out exaggerations of how unfair and corrupt the customs agents are in Belize.

This meant our total savings over what we had budgeted for getting from Texas to Belize was around $2,330, which we can use to put toward our living expenses while we are looking for property down here.

Note: If anyone wishes to see a spreadsheet with budget and actual figures, please email us and we will forward it to you. We just can't seem to figure out how to get a spreadsheet to upload into html format and look proper. If anyone out there knows how to do this, please let us know. Thanks.