Hola amigos! just to update you on our situation here, since we are stuck waiting over an hour for a bus at the moment. Today we are in Cobá, but i will start where i left off last time. We caught the free bus from our hostel, The Weary Traveller (which was pretty average really, but they raved about it in lonely planet-second night there we had a full dorm and one of the older guys was keeping us up all night coughing his lungs out and peeing with the door open in the bathroom so it echoed round the whole bloody room! but anyway...) the bus dropped us about 1km from the Tulum ruins-at the beach. We walked up the road to find a few giant tours of people had just arrived-yay!>not! but the ruins ... read more

so, we went for a loooong walk to hollywood and sunset blvd yesterday, saw all the stars on the 'sidewalk' and all the famous hand and footprints at the chinese theatre. We got offered a crazy amount of 'see the stars' tours and ended up having a gross burger for lunch in a pub called snow white... all snow white pics etc EVERYWHERE! after the long walk back we both had such sore feet, but hey I guess it was worth it :) Dario has to be boring at the moment because he still has uni work to finish by March but hopefully he'll be finished in the next week and will stop being boring :p anyway this is just a quick update with the very few pics we have taken. Oh and we had waffles ... read more

Hi, so Dario and I are getting ready to leave. I just booked our final flights, from Sydney to Johannesburg in South Africa for June-September next year. We leave for central america on 26th November, so exactly 26 days today. But before we leave, we are going to Herron Island on the Great Barrier Reef for a week from 11th and on 20th November, my brother Zach and his fiance Kristen are tying the knot! yay excitement all round! Our itinerary is as follows: Los Angeles for 3 days (transit time, I managed to book our trip to coincide the thanksgiving weekend, woops! so we couldnt get on the connection to mexico until the 29th). Yucatan peninsula, Mexico Guatemala Belize Cuba Nicaragua Costa Rica Panama (possibly) Brazil Uruguay Argentina then I head to Ecuador-hopefully the galapagos ... read more