The night before, our adorable security guard had told us that there would be road closures the next day because people would be running, riding their bikes, etc, in the surrounding streets. We figured it was due to some kind of race like a fun run, but the roads were simply closed so people could […]
We woke up in the old amusement park, having a quick breakfast, and getting ready for another long drive. We couldn't find the man who we suspect wanted to overcharge us for staying the night, but we figured he'd probably resigned himself to knowing that we'd cottoned on to the price difference to what we […]
Whoop whoop--today we're going to cross the border from Mexico into Guatemala! Michael was fortunately feeling better, and we went from Oaxaca to the state of Chiapas, the last Mexican state before reaching Guatemala. We paid our last toll (only one today, 177 pesos or just less than $10), and had our very first checkpoint […]
By the time we got out of our RV the next morning, there were kids playing around La Combi, the wonderful campsite we stayed at overnight run by Isabel and Javier. They host events for kids and the community, and the kids were having a blast on the zipline, playground and running around--it was apparently […]