Hello everybody, We are here on our last full day in Placencia before we catch a boat to Puerto Cortez, Honduras, and on to Tela and La Cieba. I have two things to cover here, since we didn't write anything about Tikal. We're sorry about the lack of recent pictures but the computers here are either security-locked against uploading photos or slower than a peg-legged pirate in a sack race. Method Man was right: Tikal is awesome. We caught a bus out ...

Hello All, We are in Placencia, Belize. We arrived here on the 25th on an old yellow school bus, blaring Bob Marley and traveling on dirt roads at very high speeds. To say the least we had a blast and that was just on the bus ride. Belize has so far been very interesting and unlike most of the other countries we have been through.Everyone we have met has been very helpful and English is the main language, which is helpful for Tara who has been a partial mu...

I'm sorry if the updates are too frequent, but I needed to add a quick update on our journey from Mexico to Guatemala. We choose the less common route that was more direct from Palenque to Tikal. This meant a 6am van from our backpackers oasis at El Panchán (though in tipical Mexico fashion, it showed up at 6:35) to the side of the river seperating western Guatemalo from Mexico. We caught about a 45 minute ride in a long, pointy board with an engine, through a...

We are now in Palenque, and it is a huge climate change from San Christobal De Las Casas, which was a mountain town about the height of Denver, CO. San Chris. was very chilly even during the day, but here it is like there is a sweaty guy following you around all day just breathing on you and putting off humidity. We are currently staying in a cabana that has a palm leaf roof and cement floors, it is basically like camping but with slightly less pest problems. How...

Hello All, We are currently in Oaxaca, MX and have found that there is a good reason people don't walk around at night here. Being robbed is not fun, don't worry, it was only a 13 year old weilding a knife that was the size of a nail file. Being the big wussy's we are we gave him some money about 20 pesos, not wanting to get tetanis from the unusally small weapon and fled to the safety of our smelly hotel. Excluding being robbed, Tara's plane being hit by li...