So Tina and I are both officially Advanced Open Water certified. We arrived in Utila over a week ago and seem to have found ourselves in this crazy vortex that won't let us leave, not that we're trying real hard. We came here with our three gringo friends that we picked up at Finca Ixobel: Jeff, Matt, and Caileb, also known as Kujat. The first night we got here (two Thursdays ago) we were all just so happy to arrive at Utila that we went a little crazy and did ...

Finca Ixobel was amazing. Thanks again Cory for the recommendation. And once again traveling during low season has been a great experience. We had another opportunity to use our tent and sleeping bags that we have been lugging around. Basically we got to camp anywhere we wanted on the open grass! It was quite steamy in our small little tent with both of us in there. After arriving late at night we quickly set up our plans for the next day. We signed up for a ...

So Palenque was a lot of fun, again. We stayed in the middle of the jungle in the Pachán, which was all very exciting, especially when a torential rain came down our first night there...and flooded the whole parking lot (so that it actually looked like a big brown river). The rain was so excessive that my bathroom roof caved in! So now we're in Guatemala and we just went to see Tikal, the Mayan Ruins, which were definitely an amazing sight. Tikal is fascin...

So although Tina and I are only in Mexico, it seems that wherever we have gone adventure has followed.We ended our stay in Puebla/Cholula with a great fiesta…drank a lot and went out...and the night ended up being quite random (at one point everyone got separated and I ended up hanging out with my new and random friend Cedric).We had a great time: speed walking almost all the way to Puebla from Cholula…catching a cab home to Sarah-Eve's house and since the hu...

After a 23 hour bus ride from Juarez to Mexico City, we have started to enjoy the hospitality and warmth that is Mexico. The bus ride was a little blury as well as trying to find a cheap place to stay in Mexico City. Alas, we found a cute little hotel in the Zona Rosa district. Later that night after loosing the phone card Ode just bought, the random times began (if they hadn`t already). We met two Mexican traveling musicians...went to a reggae bar, hung out at a...