http://www.travelblog.org/Bloggers/jonathandiscovery/ Travel adventures in journals and photos from jonathandiscovery en-us Tue, 22 Dec 2009 16:58:20 +0000 Tue, 22 Dec 2009 16:58:20 +0000 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 youre probably a cinematic idiot anyway. no offence. yesterday we drove from puerto escondido to a little place called pie de la cuesta. its just laitt http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/Mexico/Guerrero/Zihuatanejo/blog-134696.html 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 were goign to spend a night in a town just north of aucopolco and then to keep going spendin http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/Mexico/Oaxaca/Puerto-Escondido/blog-134173.html hello gang. if you have forgotten how to see my pictures ill post the address again. even though i know its listen below. the address is www.flickr.comphotosjondiscoveryi 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. ill put more on when i get home and have l http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/Mexico/Chiapas/San-Cristobal-de-las-Casas/blog-133198.html 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 http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/Mexico/Quintana-Roo/Chetumal/blog-132496.html to steal another line from aaron you better belize itwe'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 http://www.travelblog.org/Central-America-Caribbean/Belize/Belize-Barrier-Reef/Caye-Caulker/blog-131552.html 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 http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/Mexico/Quintana-Roo/Isla-Mujeres/blog-129153.html 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 weve been in. the hostel was great. we also met up with a canadian couple wed met a couple days before in campeche. the are http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/Mexico/Quintana-Roo/Cancun/blog-128445.html 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 http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/Mexico/Campeche/blog-127117.html 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 were doign alright. which is to say brendan is doing alright as im far to petrified to drive. we made it to ciudad victoria the first night. didnt do much there. just got some f http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/Mexico/Veracruz/Xalapa/blog-126454.html 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 int http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/Mexico/Nuevo-Leon/Monterrey/blog-124765.html i always feel rushed writing internet stuff lately. ihave a lot of time but i feel like i have none. its more exciting that way i guess. anyway brendan and i wandered new orleans for a while. the hostel was awesome and met a few good people there. the french quater is intense and crawfish are tasty. also a lot of new orleans is still wrecked up. didnt get many pictures of the damages but i'll p http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/United-States/Texas/Corpus-Christi/blog-124107.html arrived in new orleans this eveing around 6pm. it's been an eventful couple days. we left stillwater and drove all day until we got to st louis. got in just after dark to find no one around at the only hostel in town. after hangin out for a while someone eventually came by and let us knwo the hostel was closed but that they'd let us in any way. we wandered around the alleged french quater of s http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/United-States/Louisiana/New-Orleans/blog-123181.html this is a testi am in stillwater minnesota. brendan and i got really drunk with my cousin who i belive is actually more like my second uncle once removed. maybe twice removed. anyway john is a fun guy. we're heading to memphis tomorrow though we may only get as far as st louis. i'll post more later when i feel like. i'll have some pictures up soon. still water is a cool town. thats all for no http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/United-States/Minnesota/St-Paul/blog-122329.html