we decided yesterday to hire a driver to take us to Munnar, which is a hill station in kerala. It's been raining a lot and i thought it would be nice to feel some mountain air. Feeling Blue: As we climb slowly in elevation, things become that unspeakable smear of green that i so love. It's the green that only comes from the steady lick of rain.....the green that has a million hues from pale chartreuse to an almost blue. The earth is blood red. Striking really. The rain sort of subsides as we climb, and the sun is starting to [View Full Entry]

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On the road again......... It's nice to be out and travelling. Cochin is cool. It's a strange mix of portugese, european and indian influence. It actually reminds me quite a bit of Hoi An in Vietnam, in that it has the feeling of a town that was placed in a setting it shouldn't be in. We are still in India, the people are dark skinned, there is noise, etc, but it looks like we're walking in colonial europe set amid the backdrop of palm trees and canals......yellow and teal colored buildings degrading into old age, hiding under the asian hat of [View Full Entry]

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Our budget for guatemala is waning, but i wanted to go ahead and write about the last few days before the details escape my mind.....although they're still so vividly with me now that it seems impossible that i could ever lose them. Since we're in Guatemala for such a short period of time, we kinda did a touristy loop of highlights, unfortunately missing atalan......though i saw postcards and the place looks amazing. One of the 'must sees' here is Tikal, and i am really really happy that we were able to experience it. It seems to have made up for [View Full Entry]

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Flores  Central America Caribbean » Guatemala » Flores Tikal By lynz May 15th 2007 lyndsey We happened to pass through Flores several times. From what i gathered it's mostly an island specifically geared towards tourism, but we had fun there. There was a nice bar right on the water that we [View Full Entry]

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To maximize time we decided to suck it up and endure a 15 hour adventure that took us from Belize City across the border and then into Flores. At Flores we switched buses to an overnight bus that took us down to Guatamala city. I can´t say that it was a restful night of sleep, but we saved on accommodation for the night and got to where we needed to be. (The rough plan is to get south and work our way back up) They played a crappy Disney movie "The Princess Diaries" which i actually watched in its entirety. [View Full Entry]

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After a mere 24 hours, we decided to call it quits on Belize. It was pretty and all, but turns out not nearly as cheap as we were hoping. We took a water taxi to a small island called Caye Caulker which is supposedly the cheapest of all the islands surrounding belize, but after being there for just a short while we realized it was quite out of our budget. We spent 50 US on dinner and i think the beer may have been the straw that broke the camel´s back. They serve their beer in extra thick bottles that [View Full Entry]

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...california, real cool to the homeless. In the city, city of brentwood (those who aren't south park watchers won't get the reference, but that's cool. We've had a great couple of weeks exploring our own country for once. Took the long way to the ocean via southern oregon. Beautiful sweeping vistas and more trees than people. I liked it. Crescent City was a little lame but the redwoods there more than made up for that. It's good to be dwarfed and to be in the presence of something that has been living since the parthenon was erected. i said erect. [View Full Entry]

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(This is written by Max) Well, after roughly a month of less than constant nagging, I’m finally making a contribution to the blog. I held off for a long time and then decided I wanted the last word…and I got it. How about that! We’ve got a matter of hours left on the sub-continent before our marathon length flight and I suppose now’s as good a time as any to share my thoughts with you, our faithful readers. Shouldn’t you have something better to do with your time? Living vicariously through us…you ought to be ashamed…we’re not even th [View Full Entry]

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I'm sitting on the rooftop of the hotel on the eve of my last full night in India. The sun is gradually sinking behind the Delhi haze and the jumble of her buildings. Hawks and flocks of birds are circling alone and in groups, creating a sort of pink concerto in the sky. The temperature in Delhi this time of year is cool......it feels like autumn. The wind, still a tint warm from the sun, is tossing colored flags around on a nearby rooftop and lapping seductively across my face. From the ledge i can look down and see the [View Full Entry]

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So for the last 5 days or so we've been chillin' out not in a blue city, but a golden one. Apart from that minor color difference, from the surface the cities seem the same. Both are dominated by an impending fort, both have similar cubical architecture, and both have hotels with fun relaxed rooftops from which to take in the aforementioned sights. While i loved Jodphur for its color, i like Jaisalmer for its monotone simplicity. Everything seems to have come from the sand of the desert, and the fort itself looks as though it is an enlarged version [View Full Entry]

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