This is why I love having my own transportation while traveling, especially if it’s a motorcycle. For the price of a packaged tour to a couple of villages outside of San Cristobal, we were able...
Ok, I’m developing a bit of a door fetish here in San Cristobal. The textures and colors of these worn doors and adobe walls are just impossible for me to resist photographing. I’m going ...
I’ve really been missing SE Asia’s cheap scooter and motorbike rentals. There you can rent a reliable scooter for as little as $6 but here in Central America I rarely see anything under $...
Mexico’s San Cristobal de las Casas is often compared to Antigua, Guatemala. Both are stunning colonial cities and are wonderful places to wander for hours. I think I prefer San Cristobal of th...
It doesn’t cost a fortune to travel if you move slowly. I’d only expected to spend a week or so in San Cristobal de las Casa but soon fell in love with it and decided to seek out a long-t...
The week leading up to Easter was almost overwhelming. Each day huge processions of penitents would march through the narrow streets carrying massive wooden platforms that weight up to 7,000 pounds. ...
No one celebrates Easter quite like they do in Antigua. For the month of Lent, processions march through the streets each Sunday, carrying massive platform with statues of Christ and the Virgin Mary....
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My 90 day limit is fast approaching and I’ve heard bad, expensive things happen to travelers who overstay their welcome in Guatemala. I’ve bought my ticket to San Cristobal in Mexico and ...
There’s another travel blogger meme-doo-hickey going round and I can’t resist. The folks over at HostelBookers started it and both Dave and Deb at Planet D , Aaron at Aaron’s Worldw...
It was my second visit to the ruins of Santo Domingo and I was complaining about the $5 entry fee. I’d returned to Antigua to meet up with my friend Joe who had just flown up from Costa Rica. H...
There are few things more daunting than taking a hot shower in Latin America. Rather than use a large tank-style water heater as we do in the US, the heater here is built into the shower head and usu...
Sometimes you get a second chance. I recently wrote about an extremely painful shave I had at a quaint barbershop in Antigua called Barbaria Willy’s. While having my face scraped off, I’d...
So, I’ve got this idea for a game. It’s a kind of BINGO for travelers, based on all the many cliches we see –and participate in– while on the road. It’s goofy, easy to p...
It was nearing sunset when the manager at Yaxah’s only hotel pointed at the lake. “Cocodrillo!” he said, excitedly. We hurried down to lakes edge and watch him float idly about ten ...
This is a story I’ve wanted to tell for a long time. While not specifically travel-related, I think it reminds us that adventure can be found anywhere: overseas, at home and sometimes even in y...
Some photos take themselves. I was moping around, feeling guilty for staying the night at a $30 eco-hotel and wandered out to the deck to watch the sun set over the lake to find this scene. I had to ...
I’m an idea man. No, really. I’ve been on the road for a couple of years and every now and then I come up with a good one. Here are a few thoughts and suggestions that might make the worl...
One of the disadvantages of not speaking the local language is that you never quite know what’s going on. On second thought, I take that back. I can’t blame the language for everything &#...
So there’s a new travel blog round-robin, tag-you’re-it kind thing going around. My buddy Kevin over at The Mad Traveler was evil kind enough to tag me so here’s my A to Z of Travel...
I don’t know who the Mayans’ realtor was but he sure did them right on this deal. While not as large or historically important as Tikal or other complexes, the ruins at Tulum have the mor...
My first hint that a circus was in town came blaring from a loudspeaker mounted to the top of a tiny van. It was patrolling the tiny cobblestone streets of Copan Ruinas blasting out the theme song fr...
While waiting for the Coba Mayan Archaeological Site to open, I wandered around the nearby lagoon. It’s very peaceful in the morning and I only had to share it with a couple of herons and what ...
What’s better than sharing the top of a Mayan pyramid with 50 other travelers? Showing up again the next morning at opening time and having it all to yourself. The Coba archaeological site lies...
I was just back in the States for a week or so, flying home to surprise my parents for Christmas. The flight really put a strain on my budget since it was a last minute idea and I was paying holiday ...
There’s a lot to like about Antigua. It’s charming, clean, relaxed and easy on the eyes. Even better, it has just enough quirks to make things interesting. Here’s a few of my favori...
I didn’t move about as much as I expected to in 2011. Five countries, an extended stay in Thailand, a couple of months at home, then dipping into Central America for the first time made for a b...
Barberia Willy was a testament to minimalist advertising with no signs or poles outside — the doors were marked simply with red and blue diagonal painted stripes. Had I not looked inside as I p...
I just love the colors and textures of Honduras. A brief walk down the street can seem like a waltz through an art gallery, as it did here one morning in Copan Ruinas. To view image at full size, cli...
I’d been looking for awhile for a smaller bag to carry just my iPad and maybe a journal. There are times when I don’t want to lug around my day pack with the laptop and SLR — I just...
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