Friday, July 25th, 2008
Nana nana nana nana nana nana nana nana, Batman!
Day 312
Semuc Champey, Guatemala
I was at “the most beautiful place in Guatemala” but it didn’t quite seem like that. After my exhausting trip there I slept for 14 hours and decided I would go to the waterfalls of Semuc Champey in the afternoon. The weather conspired against me on that front as a black cloud [...]
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Wednesday, July 16th, 2008
Welcome to Guatemala
Flores, Guatemala
No breakfast for us, Katrijn and I set off early for a very sweaty walk back to the car. Once there we found that Bill had patched up my leak with some JB Weld and we poured in a quart of oil and held our breath. It seemed to hold so in went another [...]
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Monday, July 7th, 2008
Heading to the beach
Caye Caulker, Belize
I filled my backpack and headed down to the pier in time for the noon ferry over to Caye Caulker, a little strip of land that I should probably have gone over to the week before if Vanessa hadn’t distracted me :p At least the weather seemed more reasonable, the water was even [...]
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Monday, June 30th, 2008
Belize without a map
Belize City, Belize
I finally got my oil changed on my last day in Mexico. I rotated the tyres, changed the air and oil filter and had a confusing conversation about the fuel filter in Spanish. I didn’t care I didn’t understand any more, it was time for country number four on my world tour. After [...]
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Tuesday, June 24th, 2008
Driving a robbers highway
Palenque, Mexico
Time to go. I got sorted out and got the van. Gladly it was still there since I had parked on the street. My luck was still holding. The road North was Zapitista country, the local rebel groups in the state of Chaipas. Tourist had been kidnapped here before but not for a few [...]
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Wednesday, June 18th, 2008
Still alive
Zipolite, Mexico
I came to Zipolite just for one day on the way to San Cristobal and ended up staying 8 nights. Its nice, the weather has been great, the water warm, the tourists naked, why shouldn’t I stay longer.
Not been doing much. Yesterday I went on the Crocodile tour at a nearby swamp which was [...]
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Monday, May 19th, 2008
Back in Mexico
Mexico City
I’ve just had a few more days in the capital doing random tourist things. I went back to Hostel Amigo, despite my better judgment, but it seems this time the noise didn’t bother me as much. What bothered me was finding out I was paying 120 pesos for my room and other people were [...]
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Monday, April 14th, 2008
Planet earth is slowing down
Day 211
Veracruz, Mexico
God its been hot! After my day at the pyramids outside Mexico City I headed over to the gulf coast, something I haven’t seen since Naples in Florida back in October. No dolphins this time though. My vague plan was to spend the night in Tuxpan and then cruise down to Veracruz, visiting [...]
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Friday, March 14th, 2008
Wandering around Guadalajara
Day 181
Guadalajara, Mexico
I was getting close to finishing off the current book I’m reading, an Umberto Eco novel called ‘The island of yesterday’ which was a tour de force of brilliance but was slightly distracting in my quest to be a tourist. I must try not to read when I wake up as there is [...]
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Monday, February 25th, 2008
400 km run to Mazatlan
Day 163
Mazatlan, Mexico
Time like an ever rolling stream keeps on moving and so should we, next stop : Mazatlan. A major tourist city 400km south of Los Mochis. There are toll roads on the way but we opted for the more interesting route of the free roads which snake through the mountains. Nothing really to [...]
