Merry Christmas and happy new year everyone (or feliz navida y feliz ano nuevo now that I know some espanol!) Jas and I left Flores on the night bus and had a fairly uneventful trip to Guatemala city. The bus was comfy enough and we managed to get a bit of sleep, and when we arrived at the Guatemala city bus station, we were quickly shoved on to our Antigua connection minibus. Although we only briefly saw Guatemala city, we weren't really interested in seeing ...

So after 2 brilliant weeks in Phuket with dad and Megan, and 5 quick days back in Australia staying with Dan, we headed off again! We left Dan's pretty late to catch the midnight flight over to Sydney, and then on to LA. It was pretty hard to get excited at the prospect of such long flights, even with LA and Mexico as the destinations! Even so, the flights were relatively painless and we arrived in LA knackered, but not suicidal! We caught a shuttle bus prett...