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 it´s the universe saying that it is better for us to be sitting in this lovely air-conditioned internet cafe for 1 and 3/4 hours than in the open air bus station for 30 mins. Maybe I need to stop trying to interpret the universe´s messages because she writes like a poetaster [View Full Entry]

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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 [View Full Entry]

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Hi Guys!!! Firstly, 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 youz!!! I am being a little list-like 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 page, arent they? Its just a collection really. When last we spoke we were just about to head off for the Copper [View Full Entry]

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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, [View Full Entry]

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