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Orange Walk, Crossing to Belize

December 21, 2011 – 12:31 am | 8 Comments | 0 Read this

As soon as we exited the zona libre, the bus sped up. All the win­dows were wide open and the wind was crazy: it was like rid­ing a con­vert­ible for two hours. After a few min­utes, I gave up on try­ing to hold my hair back and sim­ply put on a pair of sun­glasses to avoid being blinded by the dust.

Chetumal

December 20, 2011 – 4:37 pm | 10 Comments | 0 Read this

We are 16 kilo­me­tres from the fron­tiera with Belize. Six­teen pequeños kilo­met­ros, but we decided to stay in Chetu­mal for the night—no point in rush­ing to Belize City and arriv­ing after dark. In 2001, that’s what we had done and it hadn’t been a very smart move.

Tulum, Playa y Pueblo

December 19, 2011 – 9:40 am | 8 Comments | 1 Read this

Okay: wak­ing up in this amaz­ing set­ting was worth the cold shower and the chilly night wind. Tulum beach is beau­ti­ful. The sea has all the gra­di­ent of blue you can imag­ine and the white-sand is blind­ing under the mid­day sun.

Tulum and Ruinas

December 18, 2011 – 8:23 pm | 8 Comments | 0 Read this

Tulum is a two-hour bus ride from Can­cún. We some­how caught the 10:30 a.m. bus by buy­ing tick­ets at 10:25. Of course, the two-hour ride turned into a 3.5 hours ride—más o menos as they say.

A Fair and The Beach

December 16, 2011 – 8:35 pm | 19 Comments | 0 Read this

We always stum­bled upon cool stuff when we travel. Yes­ter­day night, it was a fair in the cen­tro. The rides and attrac­tions were really cheap by both French and Cana­dian stan­dards, although they did look …

A La Playa

December 15, 2011 – 8:03 pm | 27 Comments | 0 Read this

We woke up this morn­ing dazed and con­fused. Why am I not cold? Who are these peo­ple singing drunk­enly in Span­ish? Why is this lady knock­ing at the door ask­ing if we want la limpieza?
Oh right. Cancún.

Hello Cancún!

December 14, 2011 – 11:16 pm | 14 Comments | 0 Read this

Our day started early, another depar­ture before sun­set. We always seem to get the first flight of the morn­ing in Ottawa. I don’t think I have ever seen the air­port in daylight.

Pre-traveling Rush

December 13, 2011 – 8:45 am | 21 Comments | 0 Read this

I’ve been run­ning for two weeks. Metaphor­i­cally of course—I don’t have time to run unless it’s after the bus.
It was to be expected: the pre-traveling rush is always intense. I had to wrap up work projects, pre­pare for the fact we are leav­ing for seven weeks and in between, keep up with the usual stuff such as gro­cery shop­ping and sleeping.