So this thursday is my birthday and I am going to spend it at home eating chocolate, drinking wine, and watching Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory.

Come on by anytime 7pm or after.

Email me for the address

Day 11
Spent most of the day on a bus to Merida. Watched The Illusionist (fantastic movie) and a truly depressing movie about alleged sexual abuse of children and accidental drownings. Seriously, I did not want to watch this movie. But the volume was on so loud that I couldn´t hear anything else and we were all stuck watching it and gradually growing more miserable. Fortunately, a comedy came on afterwards, but still, I am sick of buses.

Day 12
One of the most magical days on this trip.... read more

Ok, trying to remember...

Day 7
We took a night bus to San Cristobal, arrived in the morning, and explored the very touristy city streets. Went to San Juan Chamula, one of the villages not far from San Cristobal. It is a much poorer area, more characteristic of life in Chiapas. A few people I was with saw a chicken sacrifice at the local church. It was the first church I went to that wasn´t filled with ridiculous amounts of gold.

Back in the city, I met a group of travellers from Calif... read more

I miss my friend.

We went on our first guided tour from Oaxaca, which costs more money, but was worth it in this case because the sites we visited were very far apart (and reminescent of driving the last few miles to fuente)

We went to visit the fattest tree in the world (not the tallest or oldest, but the fattest) It was the coolest swiss family robinson like climbing tree I´ve seen. And it was gated. Must find a way around this...

Then we visited a home to learn about textile weaving.

Then to a petr... read more