It was great to wake in an air conditioned room and have a warm shower. After a hearty breakfast it was down to business calling possible suppliers for a new fridge, or parts for the old one. From our homework done last night and discussions over the last week or…
An early morning dip in the Cenote and then on the road to the ruins at Uxmal. A very smart entrance and proper shops and a hotel. Even a tour operator, Maya Adventures, who are using multi-coloured Land Rovers. The entrance fee came as a shock. 480 Pesos per person.…
Today we are staying put. A day of rest. Our german companions Heike & Peter are moving out but before they departed we had a great chat with them about their travels up through South America. Giving us some invaluable tips of where to go and where not to, too.…
Setting off about an hour after Tim and Sarah, we had been doing some research into replacement fridges. I had some suggestions from the Pan Am Facebook site and was given a contact for Dometic here in Mexico. Am in discussion with him now. Hampered by the lack of wifi…
It was a ‘rough camping’ spot last night, but a flat grassy area beside a lake. There were restaurants around us but so were there countless dogs and they barked, on and off, all night. A vehicle came in and shone it’s lights on us around 3am but while I…
A hot, damp, humid morning. The howler monkeys were roaring in the distant trees, but we couldn’t see them. The washing I did the afternoon before was still as wet as when I first hung it out. In fact the weather got worse and started to rain heavily. Saying goodbye…
There was a shout from Sarah at 7am this morning, “it’s starting to rain”. Rain, what’s that! It was a good enough reason to get out of bed and get the show on the road. I should have had a cold shower last night after tramping over the amazing ruins…
Today we found “U-TOPE-ia!! Never ending topes. Our journey was just over 100 kilometres, but it took us 4 hours. Very wearisome. The constant changing down to first gear to climb over. Worse still the occasional one you don’t see in the dappled shadow and crash over. Most are unmarked.…
Today is the day negotiations with the indigenous people commenced at Waitangi. Tomorrow’s a national holiday, Waitangi Day. Waiting Day (the 6th) is the anniversary of when New Zealand achieved it’s administrative independence from Australia and became a colony of Britain 180 years ago. It wasn’t till 1953 that we…
Today was to be a long driving day. Up early for a swim in the pool at Balneario Ojo De Agua. When I arrived the only other people in the water were Tim, Sarah and the kids. I climbed in slowly, as the first few yards into the water were…