Our Latin adventure is back online after a brief descanso (break). Our Travelblog amigos claim our blog site was down due to technical difficulties and it won´t happen again. Trevor was able to retrieve most of our lost blogs and photos, but we´ll type fast about our Go Slow experience just in case... The islands of Belize are relaxed, laid back and como se dice... despacio (slow). We switched back to English in Caye Caulker and saw ¨Go Slow¨signs everywhere, from the dock where we disembarked to the streets where we found specialties like lobster, hog fish, banana bread and the [View Full Entry]

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Hola Guatemala! We made to the funky little town of Flores, Guatemala yesterday. In a moment of extreme fatigue after our long boarder crossing, we (along with everyone else in our bus) signed up with a tour guide to leave at 3:30am this morning to see the famous Mayan Ruins at Tikal. Flores is a staging ground for trips to Tikal, which is about an hour away. Because it has no other reason to exist, it is filled with restaurants and tourist shops. Liz and I walked around and looked at every restaurant last night until we finally picked the Mayan [View Full Entry]

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We continued onto El Panchan, a crunchy, ecotourism hot spot next to the Palenque ruins. We stayed in our own little cabaña called Coco. Sooo we were at the Coco, Coco Cabaña. We saw lizards, chickens, turkeys and Trev almost had his finger bitten off by a spiny pig. Pretty intense. We also met people from around the world, including two Dutch dudes cycling across Central America. They had the brilliant idea of ordering a bottle of tequila for the five of us. Note to selves: If you agree to share a bottle of tequila, you're nooot gonna have a good [View Full Entry]

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We took an overnight bus from Oaxaca to a little place where the tequila and cerveza flow like wine, where beautiful churches rise high above the hills on both sides, and where firworks shoot by morning and parties rage all night. I´m talking about a little place called... San Cristobal de las Casas. We stumbled off our bus at 7:00 a.m. to a refreshingly, freezing breeze, brightly colored buildings, and a gorgeous colonial city with cobblestone streets. We tossed our backpacks and set out to explore the city half asleep. We passed packs of perritos perdidos (lost dogs - none of [View Full Entry]

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Timing is everything right! The day we arrived in Oaxaca coincided with the first day of violence the city had seen since November. Most of you probably remember last summer when the teachers in Oaxaca went on strike and brought thousands of their friends (The APPO) with them to occupy the town center until November. Vicente Fox ordered police to take back the city with force and 15 or so people died in a couple days of fighting. We happened to arrive the same day that the APPO (who as far as we could gather are Marxists) marched in the city [View Full Entry]

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After a nice bus ride from Guad to Mexico City, we found our hotel in the Centro Historico. Mexico City is the third largest metropolitan area in the world (behind Tokyo and NY). We were both skeptical about what we would find here, but were very surprised to find a really interesting and pretty city. Contrary to a lot of what we had heard, we did not feel unsafe even at night. It really resembled an old European city with beautiful ornate old buildings that centered around a main square. The main square and cathedral were built by Cortez in the [View Full Entry]

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Guadalajara (or "Guad" as some say) wasn´t spectacular, but tequila country was! We kicked off our pilgrimage to the town of Tequila with a crazy, action-packed busride through the Mexican countryside. We sat behind a little old man carrying a box of chirping chics (pollitos) who chatted with us in espanol and made us guess his age - he was almost 80, but didn´t have a single gray hair. The rest of the ride, vendors jumped on at one stop and off at another so every time you looked up, there was another character to greet us. There was a [View Full Entry]

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Trev and Liz After taunting Mexico in our last blog, the country became so cross that it gave us a big dose of humility. When we went to get our ferry tickets on Tuesday to leave on Wednesday we learned that the next ferry we could take would not leave until Friday and that it, in fact, would take 18 hours. We decided that flying is the wave of the future and hopped a flight from La Paz to Guadalajara. La Paz is a cool little beach town that seems to be centered around the local Applebees (pictured). We had [View Full Entry]

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Hola Amigos y Amigas, After a sad week of saying goodbye to our family and friends, we got on the plane to Cabo and instantly fell asleep. On Sunday, I can say that for the first time in my life I sat next to a pool all day long and did not move. There were points during the day where this task seemed more difficult than running the marathon, but it was really nice to relax and read. We have spent the last 4 days doing the exact same thing, only getting up to make lunch or head into town for [View Full Entry]

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