Eliot Greenspan is a poet, journalist, and travel writer who took his backpack and typewriter the length of Mesoamerica before settling in Costa Rica in 1992. Since then, he has worked steadily for the "Tico Times" and other local media. He is also the author of "Frommer's Costa Rica" and "Frommer's Belize," as well as the chapter on Venezuela in "Frommer's South America."

Neil E. Schlecht is the author and co-author of a dozen travel guides (including "Spain For Dummies, Frommer's South America," and "Frommer's Peru"), as well as articles on art and culture and art catalogue essays, and i