Day 15 was a travel day, we caught the bus from Guadalajara to Colima passing by 2 volcanoes, 1 extinct and 1 still active. Then on the next bus to Tecoman Laura felt like Sandra Bulack in the movie speed as the bus driver did not reduce his speed to less then 130 Km regardless of how tight the mountain turns were. Nevertheles we arrived at Tecoman and immediataly caught a bus to the small coastal village of San Jaun de Alima. see Video. On route to our destination, our bus was stopped at an army check point and 3 young [View Full Entry]

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Day 17 We caught a bus to La Placita where we watched as they butchered a cow on the street with an axe. We got back on the bus and continued on to Lazaros Cardenas where we walked 1 block and immediately caught a bus to Zihuatanejo. It was a long day of riding the winding coastal highway 200. Zihuatanejo is a collection of a small group of beaches most of which are connected by a pleasant winding board walk. After not hearing english for so long we couldn't help but be disappointed at the number of english speaking tourist wandering [View Full Entry]

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Day 10 is a travel day, we couldn´t go directly to Guanajuato from Morelia, we had to go to Irapuato first then catch a bus to Guanajuato. We debused in Irapuato, walked into the terminal, bought 2 tickets for Guanajuato, walked back out, got on our bus and left. We weren´t there 5 mins. Old Guanajuato is built in the crevis of a mountain. In order to maintain the beauty of the city, tunnels were drilled through the mountain and under the existing city to accomadate the flow of traffic. Therefore Guanajuato is a unique town looking somewhat like swiss cheese. [View Full Entry]

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Day 12 We took the ultimate class bus to Guadalajara. We booked into Hotel Frances which was the first hotel in Guadalajara. Built in 1610 the court yard which is currently a bar was originally stalls to hold the guest´s horses. We were thrilled to be in such a beautiful hotel and we thought we got it at a great price only to realize that late at night there is a disco in the adjoining building that pounds music out till 3 in the morning. This bar called Los Hipalco gave new meaning to the phrase hole in the wall, as [View Full Entry]

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Day 8 was a travel day, we arrived at the bus station at 9:45 and the attendent informed us the next bus would be leaving in 5min. We made the mad dash to catch the 9:50 bus. We reached Morelia at 2:00 and caught a taxi to our hotel, Posada Don Vasco. Morelia built in 1541, is a beautiful colonial city, complete with numerous cathedrals and museums. It took us off guard as we were not expecting to be impressed by this city. We had debated about whether to cut our visit to Morelia short, we were glad we didn´t. The [View Full Entry]

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Day 6 The ride to Toluca started off beautifully, we were weaving thru the mountains of Morelia. While traveling thru heavily forested mountain sides we would pass thru several grassy pastures filled with horses and cows lazily grazing the day away. We also passed some small villages that seemed to be in the middle of no where and lost in time. You couldn´t help but wonder how different your life would have been had you grown up here. The further in our journey we got the more the road deteriorated. This was not the 1st class bus like we had taken [View Full Entry]

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Day 2 was rather uneventful, the plane arrived on time, we left on time and landed in a typical day in Acapulco. 30 Degrees and not a cloud in the sky. We excaped the gouging taxis fares just to discover no taxis would pick us up on the road outside the Airport. We decided to take a local chicken bus complete with holes in the floors and no glass in the windows. The Woman in front of us skillfully breast feeding her toddler while careening down the mountain road. Having no idea where this bus would take us we decided to [View Full Entry]

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We´ve added photo´s to our previous blogs if you want a peek. Day 4 was a travel day to Cuernavaca. We had a great bus (no chickens allowed). It was air conditioned and we watched 2 movies. Although it cost $60.00 CDN we were glad we didn´t drive because it would have cost us $50.00 in tolls. We settled into Hotel Colonial then headed out to hang out at the zocalo. We thought we found great seats till Neil got crapped on by a bird. We looked up and the trees over head were filled with pigeons. We promptly move to [View Full Entry]

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Having flown AA twice in the past 5 years and both times having issues with mechanical problems with the plane, we weren´t surprised to find that when we arrived at the air port at 4:30 am that our flight had been cancelled due to mechanical problems. The first attendent placed us on stand by for another flight to Chicago but apon arriving at our gate we were informed we were dreaming if we thought we could get on the next flight. This attendent put us on a stand by for Dallas that would connect to a flight to Acapulco. After an [View Full Entry]

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