As the women lay in bed, the men got up and went to work. It was now Leannes US birthday and she was seeing how far she could stretch this. Today we were heading back into the park to the very remote shores of Bowman Lake to camp and kayak. So Joe and Matt carefully loaded the 4 sea kayaks onto the roof of the truck and with 4 strong coffees in hand we headed along the long and very bumpy, dusty road to Bowman Lake. We made several stops along the way to check that neither the truck roof or the kayaks had decided to leave us. An extra stop was added in at Polebridge, a town of 2 buildings, a pub and a general store with the most amazing bakery. To keep tradition alive ... read more

A 6.30am start as we had a 5 hour drive ahead and Sarah wanted us to get to Glacier National Park in time for an evening hike. No time to rest in Montana. Too much to see! The drive up was awesome. Crossing the state we could see how unpopulated Montana is. The farmers were in the middle of hay making mode which created a very picturesque setting of rows of round hay stacks dotted around the paddocks, and always with a backdrop of mountains in the distance. You can never escape wildlife in Montana and even surrounded by farms there were plenty of wild deer to be spotted. We were to stay in the middle of Glacier National Park at an area called Many Glacier. So we got to our park run motel where we ... read more

DAY 1- After a little lie in then relaxing in the magical Bozeman retreat garden, we set off to the Bridger Ranges. Although the ranges were slightly hazy due to bush fires in California we could still see the local beauty. Some mountains still had a little snow on them in which crazy skiers hunt down for that 10-20m summer ski run. After about 45min drive through beautiful pine forest, we reach our destination Sacagawea in which we were going to hike to the top of. So with hiking shoes on, we set off upwards through Alpine Pine forest, past patches of snow, streams and wildflowers of many colours, above the tree line, along a gusty ridge and then straight up for another 20mins or so. The views from the top were amazing, although we were ... read more

Wanting to move closer to our destination Cancun and see another place, we moved 1 hour up the Yucatan to the beautiful although tourist populated Playa Del Carman. This was quite a cheesy touristy hang out with hundreds of Souvenir shops, people hassling you to buy their stuff, and 100's of American tourists. But this place was very easy. We found a great deal on a hotel 50m from the beach. There were plenty of good cheap restaurants and bars. We spent 2 days here rolling between the beach and the water before we had to make our way to Cancun to catch our flight and end our Central American adventure. This leg will take us to the magical state of Montana to visit Sarah and Joe (sister and brother-in-law). It will be strange seeing family ... read more

We awoke at 4.30am to the trusted and familiar alarm tune and although the trip went smoothly, various stops and delays meant it was lunch time before we were stepping off the water taxi and onto another tropical paradise, Belizes Caye Caulker. Caye Caulker is very tiny island a couple of blocks wide and sits right in the middle of the 2nd largest coral reef in the world. As Belize is probably the most expensive place in Central America and we were in no hurry, we spent a bit of time finding our accommodation which was basic but all we needed. Its not hard to guess that snorkeling , diving and fishing were on offer here through out the island and after quite a bit of thought into which company and which trip we would go ... read more