so here we are, in the legendary Zihuatanejo. you may remember it from such films as the shawshank redemption. you know, where he goes at the end. i apologize if i am spoiling the end of that movie for anyone, but seriosuly, if you havent seen it, you´re probably a cinematic idiot anyway. no offence. yesterday we drove from puerto escondido to a little place called pie de la cuesta. its just laittle ways north of acapulco. acapulco was really hard to drive through and the outskits were pretty dirty. the center looked a lot like LA, complete with drug violence. [View Full Entry]

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here in puerto escondido and have been for a couple days now. its a very nice little town i suppose and alot of backpackers around so thats always nice. however i think its porobably the last of our backpacker cities. its a long way up the pacific from here and we start out again tomorrow. i think tomorow we´re goign to spend a night in a town just north of aucopolco and then to keep going spending one night here and one there. our insure is up on the 16th so we onyl have 2 weeks left to get out. its [View Full Entry]

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hello gang. if you have forgotten how to see my pictures, i´ll post the address again. even though i know its listen below. the address is www.flickr.com/photos/jondiscovery i say this because it takes so bloody long to upload these things that people better be looking at them. seriously, it takes like 20 minutes to upload 5 pictures. its really annoying. i´ll put more on when i get home and have lots of time. but theres at least 15 new now. i am in san cristobal de las casas. its a pretty nice little town. we drove from chetumal to palenque. unfortunately, [View Full Entry]

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back in mexico, and its nice to be sort of home. belize was awesome and i had some sweet real carriebean experiences. still its good to be bakc in mexico. it was even better to find that our car, which we left for 5 days in a random mexican parking lot, was still where we left it. whgat a relief. unfortunately, i am a fool and have not worn sunscreen for the past 5 days. i though i cvould beat the sun. i was wrong and not i´m really hot and burnt and its annoying. still, i give 2 thumbs up [View Full Entry]

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to steal another line from aaron "you better belize it!" we're in caye caulker in belize right now which is a welcome and relaxing change. not that costal mexico was in any way hectic, but i like it here. last i wrote, i think i was in playa del carmen maybe? i dunno. maybe isla muejres. in any case, we went to playa del carmen and it was gross. the beach was nice, but the hostel was kinda crap and the main drag is almost worse tourist wise than cancun. the next day we headed to tullum with our full car. [View Full Entry]

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i dont have anything to report really. we're on isla mujeres. we came across with a girl from the netherlands anda girl from venezuela. brendan has been hangin out with them driving around the island, but as for me, i'm just kind of kicking back and doing my own thing. its been nice so far. very warm and our hostel is right ona beach. they have a beach bar that opens at 11pm. after a nap yesterday i went for a few drinks, but i couldnt really get into it. i suppose i'm not a huge beach guy maybe. though i [View Full Entry]

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well in cancun now. not sure what to think. the roads coming in have been pretty bad actualy. in town its alright though. we hung out in campeche for a couple days and then moved down the road to valladolid. a nice small town, which was a nice change of pace from the cities we´ve been in. the hostel was great. we also met up with a canadian couple we´d met a couple days before in campeche. the area around the town was surround by cennotes, which are pool of water in cavenrs that lead to undergçround rivers. i got some [View Full Entry]

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not much new really. we only staye din xalapa one night. it turns out brendan took so long because the traffic is so terribel and it took so long to find a spot that he got a little lost. so the next day we headed to villahermosa, in the state of tabasco. strange little gas town, very very busy. so busy that at 10 pm, they started doing constuction oustide our window. it had a hammock though, so i didnt mind. spend most of today driving to camphece, and this is the best place yet. the old otwn is surrounded by [View Full Entry]

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well here we are again. sinc ei last wrote i think we were in monterrey. that was quite a bit of fun, but we had to move on so we hit the open road. driving in mexico does take alot of attention and can be exausting but we´re doign alright. which is to say brendan is doing alright, as i´m far to petrified to drive. we made it to ciudad victoria the first night. didnt do much there. just got some food and watched the super bowl in spanish. the next day (yesterday) we drove all day. we skipped over tampico..or [View Full Entry]

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good lord. downi in mexico, and its been a strange couple days. well, not really strange. just different. yesterday we drove to brownsville TX and hung out there. nice little town on the border. we were worried about how to get all of our stuff in order like our car permit and toursit cards, but tthe guy at the brownsville tourist center straigtened us out good. so we drove across this morning into matamoros. we took out some pesos and started looking for the highway. then a guy from the mexican tourism board offered to jump in our car and show [View Full Entry]

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