Hello all, I 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 are--Tulum 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 have a tree growing through the floor and on through the ceiling, the possibilty of rain getting in and wetting all your stuff is fairly high, and so we had to move rooms. The raininess, and the big day of tour organising (through the national park--Siam Ka´an, scheduled for tomorrow), eating, and visiting sites yesterday, have necessitated a barato ... read more

This morning was the first sleep-in for a week. It has been go-go-go! We were wakened to the sweet sounds of Mexican television on maximum volume and the clack-clack-clack of the air-conditioner. This is the first night of hotels that are actually in our budget--a little below the standard of the New York-New York in Vegas. But it was so wonderful last night when I put out the light and in the total darkness of the window being located about 30cms from the building next door, the ceiling lit up with glow-in-the-dark stars. It was like being out on the mesa, asleep in a swag with the countryside surrounding you, the soothing sounds of sirens and the locals partying the Saturday night away. I know--why wasnt I partying like all the others? To tell you the ... read more