Saturday, January 20, 2007

Un dia mas....

Hutchy is snorring, my head is aching..... I stir a little, scratching the bites on my skin. I slowly open my eyes and make out the time on my watch... 7:14AM. Whoa, that's a little early. I close my eyes.

Hutchy is snorring, my head is aching.... I stir a little, scratching the bites on my skin. I slowly open my eyes and make out the date on my watch, 19/1/07 ..... it's over.

Tomorrow Hutch and I will board a plane in Cancun and head back to OZ, marking the end of our Central American adventure. It has been an amazing two months for me, with many new faces, places and incredible experiences. But I'll preach not about the trip, all I will say is this:

If you give in every moment of your life..... your life's moments will only become richer for it.

My last two months have reinforced this personal philosophy for me.

Well hope you've enjoyed following our travels.

Hasta luego amigos!

Tim B.

PS We kept up our "Trotters" for about 2 weeks then they got lost in a blur of Cuba Libre's...

PPS Tikal is worth the hype.

Friday, January 12, 2007

One night in Puerto Barrios....

Don't you just love seedy port towns. You know, the ones that have a hooker on every corner and hotels that rent by the hour. Anyway that's Puerto Barrios (Guatemala) and me and my new Japanese mate Makoto just spent 13 hours to get here.

It was quite an effort too:

1 dawn ferry fride from Utila to La Ceiba (Honduras)
2 taxi rides
1 first class autobus ride
1 Chicken bus ride (Bus de Pollo)
2 Collectivo bus ride's (One included a free prayer session on route, well almost free I bought a specially blessed pen off the dude for 20 Quetzales afterwards.... couldn't help myself, he said it was blessed!)

Anyway so I'm back in Guatemala now. Yeah I know, I never even said I'd left, well I did... about a week ago. Actually it was just a couple of days after me and Hutch had a news years on Lake Atitlan that neither of us can remember, but neither of us will forget. But blah blah blah.... and I'm back now, with an Advanced Open Water PADI Scuba certificate and one rare close encounter with a Whale Shark under my belt. And now it's time to track down Hutchy who is about one country ahead of me at the mo swimming in Stingray infested waters, yeah he went North when I went East.

Anyway Hutch if you read this, watch ya back as I'm on the Belize border right now and I'ma hot on ya heels!