'Here on the West of Fiji, we don't care about the coup!' Well if they don't why should we?! We compromised on the whole 'could get shot' issue and reduced our stay from two weeks to one...we didn't see any trouble at all apart from the odd roadblock with laidback soldiers who gave us a smile and a wave. We were greeted at the airport by a band of merry men with a guitar and flowers in their hair singing happily...at 5am! Dedication. S...

Our introduction to Mexico City said it all...we got off the bus after 7 hours and piled into a taxi. It took us 20 minutes or so to get to the city centre...and another 2 hours to get anywhere in the centre! In the end we gave up and walked. The traffic was so bad that we just sat still for great amounts of time. The driver did his best though - he kept his hand on the horn for almost the entire time. Very effective! At one point we were sitting in a side street...

Guadalajara, Guadalajara... (its a song but you don´t really get that eh?!) We had a nice few days in Guad but we were worried that the Angela syndrome was going to strike again! We´d arranged to meet some friends, Nacho and Esther (and their beautiful baby Justus) but once again had failed to establish their phone number or anything vaguely useful like that. Also we wanted to pay a visit to Oasis, the street children centre where Cal used to work bu...

Mexico! Very cool to be here at last! After Flagstaff, the car to New Orleans didn´t happen so we cut our losses and jumped on a bus. Well, Mexico is BIG! After 8 hours or so we were in Hermosillo, up in the north west. We spent the evening strolling around plazas and soaking up the romance, and ate out in a restaurant built in a ruin. Very nice, and so good to get into Mexican food properly! Another long day on a bus brought us to Los Mochis. It seemed li...

The Grand Canyon. Wow. It was awesome, and the pictures don´t show the half of it! We settled into a nice little town called Flagstaff, about an hour´s drive away from the Canyon. They had a really good hostel there that catered for many a need (even the need for mindless videos!) and ran cheap tours to the Canyon. We jumped on one of those with some other young enthusiasts and it was definitely a good way to do it. The canyon was different from ever...