Pretty nice little town full of tourists.  The small town sits on a U'shaped bay full of anchored boats.  The size of the town is nice an...

Rented a motorcycle for $5/hr and cruised around the island.  Went Ojo de Agua, but didn´t swim as someone stole my swimming suit while they ...

Arrived in Granada and had a kid take me to Hostel Dorado (http://www.hostaldorado.com/) nearby central park.  It wasn´t one that I ha...

I ended up spending nearly two weeks in Utila at Alton´s.  I wasn´t even diving half the time I was there.  They make it hard to leave ...

I really enjoyed Tela.  It´s probably a good thing there weren´t any nice yet cheap accommodations here or I would have probably stayed too ...

Decided I'd finally had enough of San Pedro and headed for Xela aka Quetzaltenango.  I had to be there for a meeting at 5pm on the 18th to get...

I stayed in San Pedro for nearly 3 weeks.  Week 1 I studied four days at Coopertiva spanish school.  I didn't get a very good teacher and...

Checked out of Black Cat and into Los Amigos II.  Nice lady, but I don't think I would stay there again (Q40).  Booked a shuttle to Panaj...

Large breakfast at the hostel, which was included (Q60).  Good food, split the omelet and burrito.  Went to the market.  Some r...

Up at 4:40am to catch the 5am bus that actually arrived on time.  The road between Semuc and Lanquin is steep in places and they have put down...

A cave is on the property owned by Las Marias and they offer the tour for Q30 instead of Q50 if you stay with them.  Best money spent on this ...

Long, non-stop minibus shuttle ride only stopped about 20 times on our way towards Semuc Champey.  Our 7hr trip only took 10.5 hours.  I ...

Continuing on from Guate we finally arrived at Las Marias, located within walking distance of Semuc Champey.  Slept above the dorms on ...

Woke up at 4:30 am to meet guide at the park entrance.  Thank God that night had finally come to a close.  Strapped on my headlamp and he...

Got talked into heading up to Tikal the night before and staying up there.  I was told it was a good experience and there was supposed to be a...

Walked around the entire island this morning.  It took a whopping 30 minutes.  Hot day and I finally got my first Gallo beer.  It's ...

Arrived at Los Amigos with Allen as I mentioned before.

Bus to Flores via Belize City left at 6:00am and we were only about 10 min away.  Got up at 5:30am dialed up a cab to come pick us up. &n...

Drove right through Belize City.  Only stop was to drop people off and pile more on the bus.  I'd spent a couple days diving there...

Still not feeling great, but had to take Keith to see at least one cenote.  For those of you not familiar with the term cenote or the area - t...

Valentines Day...what more romatic thing to do than spend it on the beach with your father...or son.  I´d already been to the ruins in Tulum ...

Based on all of the reviews and recommendations, we got up early and caught the 7:15am bus to Chitzen Itza.  It took about 1hr and we arrived ...

Woke up early and walked around Isla for a bit.  Came back and packed my bag and toured around the beach on the north end of the island. ...

Took the GRE at 9am on the 8th, ate dinner with Trevor in Portland and then flew to San Francisco to see Tom.  Checked out his new pad and the...

It was dark and raining by the time we arrived at Puerto Juarez.  Spent the night at Pocna upstairs in the nicer rooms.  I´d s...