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Published: June 29th 2008
in antigua, guatemala. it has been a while, but lindsie and i are doing well and going to try and catch everyone up on the past month or so (and more importantly post some photos). this little post covers the time from oaxaca, mexico up till we met with arin and kelli in akumal, mexico.
basically we drove a lot in order to make it to a & k on time...from oaxaca we had an amazing drive to hierva del agua, a set of petrified waterfalls that the mayans considered a sacred site. the next day we entered the volatile state of chiapas and stayed at the beautiful little town of san cristobal de las casas. in order to arrive there we drove through atop mountains through tiny mayan villages, it was cold(!) but gorgeous. we continued on to the major mayan site of pelenque, with a quick stop at agua azul (not so much blue, more like brown, but hey, we can't predict the rain). pelenque is a powerful mayan site, with the jungle constantly vying with the ruins for space. as our aquaintance steve put it..."there's a crazy vortex of power." we stayed at a great little cabana
in the jungle, and were pleasantly woken up by the roar of some knarly monster like thing (or so i thought). lindsie informed me that we had a howler monkey right above our cabana...it was one of the freakiest noises i have ever heard a living creature make. and it didn't eat us. we moved on.
about 30 miles...my bike displayed a harsh hatred of downpours. we got caught by the remnants of a tropical storm and for some reason my cycle stopped dead in the road. so i pushed. and eventually it started back up and we were able to make it to the only pemex (national gas station) with a restaurant and a hotel. as the rain continued we learned that our hotel even came with the added luxury of it's own indoor waterfall...pouring right out of the wall and cascading down the stairs to our bed. it was like a fairy wonderland, complete with frogs in our room and a guy that came and squeegied it out for us. the rain abated and we made a lot of miles in the next three days (1000 miles in 3 days is a lot of miles for our
petrified waterfall
hierva del agua...oaxacatrip)...along the way we were fortunate enough to catch the first night of a ten day festival in the town of merida...lindsie tried to get me to dance and true to form i resisted. we also bought our yucatan hammocks...and i recieved my new nickname from the tiny mayan dude that worked there...i am now dubbed 'two mayans' (they are really short). anywhoo, more driving and some fun roads and we were in akumal with arin and kelli.................nate
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Calvin
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You guys sound like seasoned explorers now, tak'in it all in stride and having some fun along the way. It was 85 in Bham today... good ..yaaa? Glad to hear the bikes are cooperating. Live free. CB