Day 66 - 67 Playa del Carmen, Mexico We flew into Cancun and got a shuttle bus down the coast about an hour to Playa del Carmen. It was bloody hot and the sun was intense. We found our hostel which was 20m from the beach, dumped our stuff in our room and got a recommendation for some good local Mexican for lunch. The 10min walk to the restaurant left us sweating like crazy and even more hungry and thirsty. The restaurant, El Fagon, didn't disappoint. We ordered...

Day 27 - Back to Copacabana and onto Puno, Peru After a great breakfast overlooking Lake Titicaca we caught the ferry back to Copacabana where Brendan learnt a new card game from the Bolivian guys on the boat. We wandered around the streets of Copacabana, checked out the big old church, watched as locals got small figurines of cars, machinery, brides etc blessed in order to hopefully receive the full size versions in the coming year. We jumped on our bus to Pun...

Day 62-65 Miami We arrived into Miami in the early afternoon, made our way through the various checkpoints and immigration stations until we finally got to the baggage area. It took us 5 minutes of standing at the carousel to realise that neither of us was carrying the computer...mucho crapo. Brendan tried his luck at getting back out to the main area but that was not going to happen. So after another 30mins of waiting for security to look around the immigration...

Day 59 - 61 Quito After an easy afternoon flight from the Galapagos via Guayaquil to Quito we arrived at our hostel which ended up being a great little find. It was called Jumbo Lodging and was owned and run by a lovely family in a nice little place within the old town. After meeting the father who showed us to our enormous room and then gave us a run down of a few places to go, we jumped outside to make the most of the last few hours of light. We checked out s...

Galapagos Islands After catching a bus over the border into Ecuador from Peru, with every possible appendage crossed for good luck, we arrived into Guayaquil, Ecuador's largest city, in the hope of finding a last minute, and of course dirt cheap, trip to the Galapagos Islands. We succeeded in 1.5 of the 2. Our tour was booked within 1 hour of arriving to our hostel. The 5 day tour we booked didn't start for two days so rather than hang around the ugly and not s...