Please Sir, can I have some more?...

A 6 hour bus ride turned in to 9 as we caught the second class bus to Oaxaca City. The road to Oaxaca wine its way back up the mountain with a stunning view and in some places quite frightening road where by it would be a sheer drop down the canyon without any barriers on the side of the road. We get to our hostel at 10pm and they are fully booked up for the night. Arse, so the hostel suggested another hostel around the corner. Helen and I were both to tired to look for something else so we ended up there. I will say it was possibly the worse hostel I have stayed at. It...

Guerillas in the Mist...

Helen from New Zealand would be my last travelling companion on my trip. I met her on Caye Caulker in Belize and I had a feeling we would get on from the moment she said she had a hatred for Bono, Coldplay and People who wear Che Gervra merchandise. The 22 year year old was working her way up to LA where she would catch a flight to Ireland where she would be spending the next year working in Dublin before heading off again on her travels. Helen always managed to put a smile on my face and had the ability to make long bus journeys and we seemed to bounce off each other in...

God Bless the ‘Rasta’ Queen...

Two days of partying in Cancun was more like two days running back and forth to the toilets as I must of picked up a bug somewhere in Cuba. So all i really did was sit in my dorm room and write blogs about Cuba and try and get better for the next leg of the trip, Belize. The couple of days of rest did me the world of good as the 6 hour bus ride to the south border seemed to fly by. Crossing borders was a relaxed affair and with another stamp in the passport I crossed no mans land in to this small and rather odd little country. Chris and I climbed aboard a chicken bus to...

Happy New Year 2008...

Stepping off the boat from Isla Mujeres I start chatting to a women who to is going to Cancun airport as well so we thought we would share a taxi together. Tamara was 40 years old going on 20 (must be all that clean air in Colorado as she looked great) A teacher at Boulder university . An extremely interesting woman who had so much to say I ended up sitting in Starbucks at the airport chewing the fat with her over a overpriced chicken sandwich and Java Chip frappuccino. I said goodbye to Tamara and let her get on her way and I headed over to the arrivals t meet my next...