Blogs from Chetumal, Quintana Roo, Mexico, North America

We say goodbye to our longtime traveler Jacob Metcalf. He has been with us from Guadalajara to Chetumal which spanned over a month and couple of thousand miles. He would tell you that he is sometimes a teacher and always a student. To that I would add musician, explorer, climber (of semi-illegal areas), one who is tight with a penny but generous with a song or story, and the inventor of the notorious "merrier". Godspeed my friend on the rest of your journey south and here are a few pics of your time in the missionvango (a.k.a. Iguanas 5).... read more

Hello, everyone I am a Mexican who wants to visit Central America for the first time. I have experience travelling extensively within Mexico and Europe. I am planning to travel by land across Central America, starting in Mexico (Chetumal), and ending in Colombia. I do not plan to drive, as I intend to fly back to Mexico from Colombia (or Panama, if I do not manage to cross by land). I intend to use public transportation between each country, and hitchhike where necessary. I just came across this site, and thought it wouldn-t be a bad idea to get a travel companion. I intend to start my trip the second week of October, and will travel for two weeks southward from Mexico;s border with Belize, down to Belize-Guatemala-El Salvador, etc. to Panama or Colombia. Needless to ... read more

April 27, Monday I got some last minute signatures and stamps on my dive credentials, and we packed up Bear. I had scoped out an escape route that was much better than the way I had ridden in to Julia's, remember we are not along a normal road. Two corners had to have wood placed along it so I could push the bike around the bend without dropping the rear wheel off the walkway and into the deep sand, but we were successful in getting to the hard packed road. I did notice our first equipment casualty. The stock rear mud guard had lost a bolt, and the plastic was broken at another fitting, so it was hanging by a single attachment point. I broke out the tools, removed the whole thing and strapped it on ... read more

Hi everyone Got time to kill before we board the bus to Chetumal (four hours south) so here i am in the internet cafe, under the giant fans and lapping up the breeze. Love the buses, they are luxury and have movies playing so the time goes quick and is super comfy. We left our hostel this morn and the ladies who run it are so lovely, making sure we had a good breakfast (like little mother hens), traditional black beans, rice, meat and torillas hmmm dont think breakfast liked me so much though lol. Its a great place to come for me coz im as tall as a giant here. Tonight we will be in Chetumal for one night and then board an early morning bus to Flores, Guatemala....to the jungle and the animals and ... read more

March 5th, We are now at Yax Ha camp ground just north of Chetumal, the capital of the state of Quintana Roo. Chetumal is just a few miles north of the Belize border. This city is unique in Mexico in that it has very wide boulevards due to the fact that it has had many opportunities to rebuild itself after hurricanes devastate the place. Because this is not a tourist town, shopping is as laid back as in the U.S. or anywhere, i.e. no pushy hawkers. The 18 rig Fantasy caravan was in here when we arrived. We had shared Freedom Shores RV Park at Isla Aguada with these folks and I had made fun of them in my blog. This time they were much friendlier and we had a good time visiting with the wagon ... read more

Hi Travel fans! We are out of the jungle and back to a computer! Harold got to fulfill his dream of exploring Mayan ruins. We explored all day every day for about 4 days! It was absolutely astounding. We climbed up and down pyramids, temples, mansions, acropolisis, and mysterious buildings of all sorts. We had made arrangements to be guided at all of these places, some of which are way off the beaten track. You are hiking along a trail, listening to howler monkeys, and suddenly out of the jungle looms an ancient temple, and we are the only ones there! At the first one I kept expecting to be eaten by a jaguar because it was so wild. Then I got used to it. The jungle sounds, sights and smells. Our accommodation was really fun. ... read more

hi everyone this entry will be quick and odd it is on a spanish keyboard and since now i am paying for the time i will just go quickly the keys are a little different anyway notice that now we are in mexico today we were in three countries guatemala belize with a beautiful view of the caribbean and now mexico where we will stay for 4 days the long bus ride turned out to be very pleasant and interesting at one point the driver drove the whole bus to an atm because a guy on the bus had paid too much for something and didnt have the money to pay fees at the borders! another time he stopped so a passenger could buy a snack at a roadside stand we met a lot of travelers ... read more

Chetumal, 24 abril 1990. We left Belize-City on the 10 o'clock bus for Chetumal this morning arriving in Mexico at 14.00 h. afternoon. We plan to get on the overnight bus to Cancun at 23.35 h. so we'll save on a hotel room. Since James is still seething with sheer anger at what he considers Peter's "betrayal", it seemed a good idea to leave him alone with our backpacks in Chetumal's main zocalo while Nora and me went on a little city tour by foot. We walk on Chetumal's wide boulevards holding hands and enjoying the feeling of young people being in love, stopping often to embrace with Nora whispering words of love in my ears in her native Louisiana accented french, drinking cafe con leche at one of the numereous bars that line these busy ... read more