The overnight bus from Mexico City to Campeche was a thoroughly confusing experience. Everyone was made to get off the bus at some deserted bus station in the middle of the night and after standing idle for 15 minutes the empty bus appeared to drive away without us! With our less-than-pigeon Spanish we were completely in the dark (another great pun there Tom) as to what to do, however it seemed that the driver simply wanted to give the Mosquitoes of the region a ...

Now that we know what bus travel in Mexico is like ("Now we know, oh yes, now we know"), we couldn't wait to board the next bus for Mexico City. The next six hours were pure bliss and in Trudy's own words "Not long enough"! Mexico City was hot in the extreme (despite it still being winter here) and after we'd checked into our hostel dorm room we had about fifteen minutes in which to get ready to go out on a hostel trip to Lacho Libre wrestling (after some forc...

Leaving Puerto Vallarta was possibly the happiest we've been in the last five months. When we boarded our bus to Guadalajara and saw the luxury we'd be travelling in, it was almost beyond our comprehension. After 4 months on the Greyhound we'd come to expect abuse from the staff, released prisoners and mental patients as fellow passengers and buses that passing vagrants wouldn't use as a toilet. Now we were presented with a free onboard snack (sandwich, cake and...

Disembarking from the Carnival Splendour, our arrival into Puerto Vallarta was as confused as our arrivals have been anywhere else. We did know which bus to catch and we found the bus stop after only 5 or so minutes walking, however the fact that we were now in Spanish speaking territory came as a bit of an unexpected shock to us (albeit totally expected!). We hadn't really prepared for this moment and it definitely showed. Our attempts at rudimentary communicat...

Seeing as we went to America by boat we thought it would be great to leave by boat as well (we also thought it would be a good way to skip all of the Mexican border towns that people keep warning us about!). So we got on the Metro in Los Angeles and took the train all the way to Long Beach for only $1.50 - who said you HAD to have a car in LA? - where we boarded the Carnival Splender cruise ship heading to Cabo San Lucas and Puerto Vallarta. After 4 months travel...