South America so far..... We flew from Panama City over night and arrived in Buenos Aires early in the morning. We scored an awesome hotel deal on lastminute.com and ended up staying in a downtown hotel for half the price of a hostel. We spent a few days here just wandering around, drinking malbec red wine and eating delicious steak. The first night we also went out to watch a tango show which was amazing and we were on a front row table. Buenos Aires is an ...

After finally leaving Granada (after 10 days of relaxing, swimming and hammock swinging!) we headed to isla de ometepe, a giant island made up of 2 volcanos in lake Nicaragua. It was a pretty impressive sight heading over on the ferry. We spent 2 days over here not doing much at all. The island used to be a good spot of kayaking and swimming on the lake beaches, but about 18 months ago there was a huge flood and the lake level was raised about 3 foot, and this...

So I left it too long between entries...and now I can't remember where I left off....! I think it was San Pedro de la Laguna at Lake Atilan in Guatemala- we had an awesome week there just being bums, wandering and visiting markets. When we left there we headed to Honduras, which took 2 very long days! First we caught a shuttle back to Antigua, then hopped on another bus headed for the border - which quickly ended up in a traffic jam! About 8 hours later, we e...

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...