Having fun in Guatemala. Things here are chill. We have been away from technology so posts including some good photos and stories from Belize are to follow. We are setting off tomorrow for 5+ days biking through the jungle and lost ruins. Found out that anti-venom snake kits cost 100 dollars so I guess we should just watch out and not tangle with them dangerous snakes! Promise to post stuff as soon as I can.
Be cool!
mr
Saturday, August 14, 2010
Wednesday, August 4, 2010
Chetumal- Belize border
La ultima fiesta en Mexico. Tomorrow we should make the cross into Belize. We don't think there should be jail time in our future, but then again there was that time in Canada... I expect things to be more expensive come tomorrow in Belize. The town of Chetumal seems to be a town where everyone comes to buy things and trade what they have. Lots of various stores that have strange products and animals too. We were thinking of buying a young chicken and taking it along the route. What do you suppose are the visa requirements for a chicken of Mexican decent? It might need a return ticket.
Wednesday, July 28, 2010
photos off my broken camera
Jeff chilling in his shelter in our campsite on the beach in Tulúm
The site of Playa Esperanza in Tulúm. Awesome vibes.
Gran Cenote entrance 5k outside Tulúm. Cost: 100 pesos
About to get in the water in Gran Cenote. When I jumped in a tiny fish bit my nipple, it felt like a shock and I leaped out of the water so fast and wore a shirt from then on.
another angle of Gran Cenote
Snake Cenote. 500m from Gran Cenote. All of these cenotes were named by the people who explored and discovered them, all English speaking gringos. All of this development has also happened since 1989. So recent.
Jason deciding if he wants to enter snake cenote or just stand there feeding mosquitos.
In Snake Cenote from the top. Must just be a clever name, we didn´t see one snake down there.
The formations were crazy
Those are tree roots growing down to the water making what looked like an altar. Notice a bit of sun light to the right.
More roots. The water was only 20cm deep and smelled of sulfur.
After this we all had broken cameras and hellish circumstances so no photos available.
After our back breaker jungle ride our gear was worked! Almost as dirty as us.
Thick mud on bike, rider, and notice the can of bug spray! Yeeeeah DEET! The boys don´t feel the deet but I would rather die a year early than go it alone against jungle bugs.
We rock a hotel with a small pool. Yea we some ballers! but we turned that place into a gypsy pirate hang out. Our dirty bikes there and all our wet camping stuff on the walls and hanging, not to metion all our laundry, they were cool with it tho.
This bike mechanic knew his stuff. José was his name and he spoke some English while making me SPOKES! My crappy expensive dt swiss wheels have been popping spokes like crazy. 
José also fixed Jason´s $200 titanium bottom bracket and installed a Chinese one with no bearings just grease! We wonder how long it will last. Such a funny change, who knows it may last forever, but hopefully craig will bring a new drive train to Guatemala.
Tuesday, July 27, 2010
For sure not the best of times, but not the worst either.
In the last week we have seen some amazing sights. We found some caverns with stalagtites and stalagmites, and super clear water. I have some photos but they are hard to load here. The swimmng was great. We pressed on to Cobá where there are ruins, we ran into strage people there. When we rolled into town we found a construction site and made it home. At about 10pm a man came to shut the gate. Tents set up and me in my skivvies we expected him to be none so pleased to see us but he said no problem! and he closed the gate until 7am. Awesome! Then the next day we had a good time at the ruins that were major. Met a mayan man who tried to teach us some mayan, we have since forgot. Then he told me to cut my hair. This is the third time in a week. Here they say the Bible says for only women to have long hair. That is a load of bull-. I asked about jesus but they stick to me cutting my hair. To be honest that guy was totally rude and I had to give him my bit about living with love than living by a book of fiction. I was trying to lay off but dude! Then we swam in two more Cenotes and made way 45 or so k´s to Tulúm. Stayed in a pirate cove we found and got chewed up by bugs.
Heading south we got on a route on gravel or dirt. This trail went thru the jungle south from Tulúm. 45k of bugs bugs bugs! rough road and tours of yuppie idiots in jeeps honking for us to get out of their way. Unbelieveable! what jags! they also didn´t have to pay the park fee! using their motors to destroy habitat! Then we hopped a skiff across the bay to the other part of the park where we think it is 45 more k until a town. WRONG! try 70k of pure jungle and we thought the bugs were bad before. We could sort of outrun the mosquitos which were in swarms by the millions, but the horseflys that bite were fast and aggresive. The road proved too much for my rear wheel and broke more than 5 spokes. yikes! fixing them was not cool with so many bugs. dark fell quickly and the sounds were rediculous! eerie sounds of frogs and stuff I did not know what it was. oh yea did I mention the BUGS!? some the size of staplers! and the road at times under water from the swamp hip deep! that was fun the first twenty times then a challenge. in the morning i had to fix a flat in my tent for doing it outside was just stupid because of the bugs. No romantic glory here defiately type 3 fun. only fun to tell how hellish the experience was. The last 2 or so hours on the trail we 3 were split up and when we met in the town at the end of the jungle we were a surly crew of chaps! swearing like salors and covered in mud, sweat, and blood. Gnarley! we got a hotel for cheap but expensive for mexico and it has a pool, so we are cool for now. I had said this morning that if all the trip was like the las 5 days costantly wet and chewed up that I would be done! Just not fun when you are always getting eaten and wet.
dry and safe, going out to get a beer and drink it in the pool.
hell yea
el pirata
mr
Heading south we got on a route on gravel or dirt. This trail went thru the jungle south from Tulúm. 45k of bugs bugs bugs! rough road and tours of yuppie idiots in jeeps honking for us to get out of their way. Unbelieveable! what jags! they also didn´t have to pay the park fee! using their motors to destroy habitat! Then we hopped a skiff across the bay to the other part of the park where we think it is 45 more k until a town. WRONG! try 70k of pure jungle and we thought the bugs were bad before. We could sort of outrun the mosquitos which were in swarms by the millions, but the horseflys that bite were fast and aggresive. The road proved too much for my rear wheel and broke more than 5 spokes. yikes! fixing them was not cool with so many bugs. dark fell quickly and the sounds were rediculous! eerie sounds of frogs and stuff I did not know what it was. oh yea did I mention the BUGS!? some the size of staplers! and the road at times under water from the swamp hip deep! that was fun the first twenty times then a challenge. in the morning i had to fix a flat in my tent for doing it outside was just stupid because of the bugs. No romantic glory here defiately type 3 fun. only fun to tell how hellish the experience was. The last 2 or so hours on the trail we 3 were split up and when we met in the town at the end of the jungle we were a surly crew of chaps! swearing like salors and covered in mud, sweat, and blood. Gnarley! we got a hotel for cheap but expensive for mexico and it has a pool, so we are cool for now. I had said this morning that if all the trip was like the las 5 days costantly wet and chewed up that I would be done! Just not fun when you are always getting eaten and wet.
dry and safe, going out to get a beer and drink it in the pool.
hell yea
el pirata
mr
pics take a long time to load
Our camp in Tulúm on the beach it was rad! Jason chillin´
Drunk mayan dude who kept drinkin our beers when we were not looking he was maybe 5 ft tall. He was speaking mayan and freakin because we didn´t understand. Pretty funny.
Wednesday, July 21, 2010
Diving and dining on the reef
There is a reef that runs from the south of Cancún to Honduras. It is huge! Long at the very least. We have seen it from many different locations. Puerto Morelos was awesome, but we were told that we must purchase a tour for gringos... Obviously you could imagine our response. Good thing we picked up slang and curse words quickly-not to mention our ideas of globalization and capitalism. Further on in Akumal we lived the pirates dream. We snorkeled the evening we got there and noticed many spots where the local sea turtles were laying their eggs. We were prohibited from camping on the beach due to this scenerio, but for some reason it is totally cool to build walkways and walls for adjacent condos. Yay capitalism! Nearing dusk we got fruit from a stand and 19 coconuts from a nearby tree and gourged ourselves on coco. Fat city. We rested on a pedestrian over pass of the highway so we did not get eaten alive by mosquitoes, then found an awesome camp. The next day was almost all snorkeling, we saw eagle rays, coral fish, angel fish of every color, and a few sea turtles. The following day in Tulúm, I speared a fish grilled it and it was wonderful. Just before taking a nap I had a great sample of coco. Life is going pretty well at the moment. We are looking for nearby cenotes (seh no tays) that are under ground fresh water you can swim and dive in before heading to Belize.
be cool
mr
be cool
mr
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