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 Princess. Bad choice. We ordered pan de ajo (garlic bread) which came out as 3 hot dog buns toasted with some butter on them. I dont think it was even I cant believe its not ... read more

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 these pups are pampered) and followed joyful tunes to the hills up the stairs to one of the churches. The place was packed! People were enjoying breakfast, a band was rocking (with xlophone included, of ... read more

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 16th century when the conquistadors took over the area from the Aztecs. Cortez destroyed all of the Aztec temples and build the cathedral and square on top of where the main temple was which was ... read more

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 a couple of hours after our bus ride so we decided to grab some food at La Fondas. We were just kindof TO'd that they didnt give us full meal pics yet. Even though we ... read more