Sorry no vote until sometime Saturday :(

I deal mostly in Mexico, where there can be a gringo price, particularly if you are using USD. Mostly, it seems, it's la mordita so generally a fairly reasonable amount. Except, of course, in the tourist enclaves. There the action really depends on what the traffic will bear.

Thanks for a great post. I have some friends that rode to Panama a couple years ago and got really good at finding the 'expat' communities where they could at least get the straight scoop on what was going on.