Dec 21, 2009 As usual, we had a very early flight for our trip from Cancun to Mexico City. I was excited because I have always wanted to go to Mexico City, a place where some of family has spent a lot of time. However, both of us knew that this was our last stop on our trip, so we were both sad that the end came so quickly. The one big thing we wanted to see was the great pyramids, and if we had time - go to the Anthropology museum. Our plane arrived around 9:00 AM and we made it to our downtown hotel around 11:00. I was able to get some information on the pyramid tour from the hotel across the street and found it was too late to go that day. We ... read more

Dec 18, 2009 The bus ride to Cancun was rather uneventful. We stopped at Playa del Carmen before arriving to Cancun. We both agreed it looked like a great place to stay away from the chaos of which is Cancun. The bus station at Cancun was our first indication that this wasn’t your typical Mexican town. The mix of vacationers, Spanish, English, fast food, heavy traffic, shopping, skyscraper hotels, could have easily been a Floridian beach town. No difference except Cancun may be more English friendly! We got tickets to a town near Chichen Itza, called Piste. It was leaving shortly, so we decided to get some lunch at a local fast food burrito place across the street from the bus station. The bus ride to Piste was not as comfortable; for the majority of the ... read more

Dec 15, 2009 We did arrive to Belize City in time to catch the early bus to Tikal (9:30AM). However, because the locals were trying to fill every seat on the bus, we didn’t depart until almost 12:30PM. Before we departed we knew money was an issue because Tikal does not have an ATM. We decided to get some Belice Dollars to exchange at the border. Later we would find out they offer horrible exchange rates. On our bus we met Michael and Aaron from Canada and Frank Houston…from Dallas. We were all planning on the same type of excursion (1-2 Day trip in Tikal, Guatemala then return to Belice), so we decided to stick together. The bus arrived at the Guatemala border after a couple of hours and we all paid our expensive Belice departure ... read more

Dec 9, 2009 Another early morning flight meant that we'd be waking up in the middle of the night to get to the airport. But we didn’t care because we were on our way to Belize! We usually have great success with having free wifi at the airport, but this time we weren't as lucky. We flew from Managua, Nicaragua (with a layover in El Salvador) to Belize City, Belize! The Belize currency was exactly half of the US currency ($2 BZD = $1 US) so calculations were easy to make. We weren't exactly ecstatic to hear that the only way to get into town was by taxi but $40 BZD later, we found ourselves in the taxi with Carlos, a very nice local who drove us to the water taxi in no time. It was ... read more

Dec 4, 2009 Unlike the USA/CND/JPN, times are far from being “exact” in Latin America. In fact, I don’t even know why there is a bus schedule. We kept missing the bus the day prior to our departure, so we decided to get to the bus stop very early to not miss our transfer in Liberia. Lucky for us, the bus left about 30 min before its “scheduled” time (usually in Latin America transportation is late…not early!). Everyone says the bus to Liberia is only about 90 minutes long. After stopping at every little town hidden in the jungle between Tamarindo and Liberia, we arrived to the Liberia Golden Arches (McDonalds) about two and a half hours later. It was a pretty ride through a little more of Costa Rica. Despite being a more expensive area ... read more