After a relaxing day in Merida, sleeping in and swimming in the sister hotel's pool, we jumped aboard an overnight bus to San Cristobal de Las Casas, which was a town on route for us to catch another bus to Oaxaca, our next official destination. We had read the warnings about theft on overnight buses and so carefully put our backpacks at our feet under our seats, thinking that that was the safest place to put them if we nod off for a while. We had heard that the bus to Palenque, a near by tourist destination, always had reports of theft, but our bus didn't stop there and so we assumed that the threat was slightly less. But little did we know, that our companion sitting behind us carefully opened Dan's bag from behind the
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