Ebook: Off the Grid: My Ride from Louisiana to the Panama Canal in an Electric Car

Intro; Title Page; Copyright; Contents; Foreword; Weâ#x80;#x99;re Off; One Day Earlier; Drug Lords and Federales; Donâ#x80;#x99;t Come; Latin Electricity; Out of the Desert and Into the Tropics; The Riddle of Mexico; Ancient Mexico; Second Thoughts; Highway to Hell; Topes and Potholes; Bouncing into the Clouds; Stranded by a Snowstorm; Land of the Maya; Crazy Drivers, Big Mountains; Photos; The Car Steals the Show; Southern Summer of Love; Guatemalansâ#x80;#x99; Hospitality and Short Memory; Guatemalan Math and Bridges; We Ainâ#x80;#x99;t in Orange County; Fleeced or Robbed?; Poets, Volcanoes, and Hugo Chavez.;The rollicking tale of a first-of-its-kind adventure#x97;driving a Tesla through Central America. Only a week after the nation's newspapers were filled with headlines of the first cross-country trip in an electric car, two Louisianans slip quietly across the Rio Grande in south Texas in an attempt to do the unthinkable#x97;drive a factory electric car across seven Third World countries to the #x93;end of the road," Panama City, Panama. Without support and armed only with a toolbox, a bag of electrical adapters, and their wits, author Randy Denmon and his friend Dean trudge on through jungles, deserts, vol.