http://www.travelblog.org/Bloggers/Lalarge/ Travel adventures in journals and photos from Lalarge en-us Sat, 12 Dec 2009 01:10:24 +0000 Sat, 12 Dec 2009 01:10:24 +0000 Amendment It is so rare that I can get on line and I spend a good portion of all that alone walking time thinking up intro's to my next blog and talking to cows sheep horses and one llama asking unanswerable questions avoiding thinking about what my thesis is about misconstruing things investigating strange and macarbe objects at the side of the road ... but that's beside the point so I http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/United-Kingdom/England/Gloucestershire/Cheltenham/blog-409810.html Monday morning finds me still lounging around at the 'hotel' King's Oasis a.k.a Adam's house with the grand total of zero miles under my belt. We did climb a hill yesterday to get a beautiful rained in view of Cheltenham and surrounds so I haven't at all been idle. Also for all those considering a stay at King's Oasis in the future dont think that it is all spa's and relaxation. There is at l http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/United-Kingdom/England/Gloucestershire/Cheltenham/blog-406499.html I've walked Bodhi. I've investigated all the advertising boxes on Dictionary.com and learned the spanish word of the dayprecioso beautiful lovely precious. I've cleaned the grout with my old toothbrush despiderwebbed the hammock and even stayed awake through Compass okay those last ones were just daydreams but I daydreamed. Essay is not writing itself but I thought I'd post my ten fa http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/Australia/Victoria/Melbourne/Albert-Park/blog-403929.html Well its two weeks until the annual pilgrimage. I'm getting my things in order so I am writing to invite and give people the option of opting out. Let me know if you get this and you want out. Otherwise see you on the road very shortly .... very exciting http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/Australia/Victoria/Melbourne/Albert-Park/blog-400420.html You have had to wait a very long time to find out about those plans that the universe had. They are now even more uninteresting than they were 3 weeks ago. The bus didn't leave San Cristobel until night and so we decided to go to Tuxtla Gutierrez. I don't know if Tuxtla has any fabulously interesting spots. We spent the whole 6 or 7 hours in the bus station and the shopping mall next door to it. http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/Mexico/Chiapas/Tuxtla-Guti-rrez/blog-304028.html Here is British Candy for you to have a look at. I am living in a fantasy world and saying that I still am in Mexico City. In reality I am actually at work in Melbourneand can hardly believe that days actually can go this slowly The trip is over but for those who want to know how it all ended I will still finish the blog up over the next couple of weeks at work and whenever I can find an i http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/Mexico/Distrito-Federal/Mexico-City/blog-300792.html Oh my Lord ... I have to warn you that I am two sheets to the wind ... is that the phrase It feels like a few more sheets than that. Quite by accident we are celebrating the 40th day of our 402040 holiday with a few tequilas. It is currently 12.05am Mexico City time and I am sitting in the reception of the Casa Gonzuelas dont even ask me to spell that at the moment with my new fabby wig on. http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/Mexico/Distrito-Federal/Mexico-City/blog-299877.html I am really upset that my tan is fading fast here in Oaxaca. It has been no shortage of time spent outside but the rain keeps washing any sunshine away. Ill try to catch up a bit more on this blog. In effect it is really gong to be my diary for the trip as my actual diary is filled with an odd assortment of undiary like things so please feel free to ignore any bits that are too touchyfeeling http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/Mexico/Oaxaca/Oaxaca/blog-297229.html Okeydockey. Well Bern Chuckychazza and Val are again playing a waiting game. Tequila is for all those that are possibly not versed in the finer tequila details a specific type of mescallike a pink lady is a specific kind of apple. We are waiting for a bar to openvery charmingly called La Cucaracha the cockroach where we will be taking a taster flight through the joys of mescal. I am http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/Mexico/Oaxaca/Oaxaca/blog-296756.html It seems that every place we stay has a memorable sight or sound of the night in the rooms we stay in. In Chihuahua it was the star lined ceiling Creel the barking dogs and the roosters crying morning in Los Mochis an airconditioner whose volume has been known to cause earthquakes in more susceptible areas of the world Guadalajara the storms and morning traffic through 12 feet tall windows. http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/Mexico/Yucat%E1n/Merida/blog-294645.html The logical thing would have been to check the bus timetable and then have lunch. Mmmm maybe that psychometric test was right and future employers should be weary of my lack of logic. Maybe it was the heat and the 2km walk with our packs on in the sun. Maybe its the universe saying that it is better for us to be sitting in this lovely airconditioned internet cafe for 1 and 34 hours than in t http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/Mexico/Quintana-Roo/Tulum/blog-292879.html Hello allI have discovered that the map thing does not work the way that I thought it did and so have fast forwarded to where we currently areTulum on the Caribbean Coast.This morning as we were leaving our hostel the guy ran out and told us that it was going to bucket down. This ordinarily would have been of no consequence as we are in the tropics now but when your hostel room happens to http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/Mexico/Quintana-Roo/Tulum/blog-292099.html Hi GuysFirstly Mum and Dee thanks so much messages are getting through. Sorry that I havent actually emailed as such but we have been packing the days with so much stuff that it is hard to get a minute on a computer. Love youzI am being a little listlike and writing a couple of different entries so that points turn up on my map. Points on a map are just like lists that dont run down a p http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/Mexico/Chihuahua/Copper-Canyon/blog-291214.html This morning was the first sleepin for a week. It has been gogogo We were wakened to the sweet sounds of Mexican television on maximum volume and the clackclackclack of the airconditioner. This is the first night of hotels that are actually in our budgeta little below the standard of the New YorkNew York in Vegas. But it was so wonderful last night when I put out the light and in the tot http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/Mexico/Chihuahua/Chihuahua/blog-287794.html