On Wednesday morning, after a light and dairy-free breakfast, we held our heads up high and braved the dreadful road ahead of us. The 30 minutes it took to get from San Agustín Lanquín to the paved road of the highway seemed endless. We made it without falling or regurgitating so, when we finally made it […]
After breakfast on Tuesday morning, we took a shuttle from our hostel to Semuc Champey at a cost of 120 GTQ (~20 CAD) for a round trip for the both of us. The shuttle was actually a pickup truck and the ride was almost an hour of being thrown around in the back while traversing […]
Tim and Marisa met us at our hotel on Sunday morning to ride to our next stop in Chahal together. The ride itself was around four hours long, not including our lunch break at a small restaurant along the way, and was quite scenic. We had a short ride through a dirt road that the […]
On Friday morning, we left San Ignacio and headed to the Guatemalan border with team Notier’s Frontiers. The crossing was fast and easy for team Riding Around the World as we had made photocopies of all our documents beforehand. I had actually copied the wrong page of Phil’s International driver’s license (oops!), but the border […]
We have a new video up on our YouTube channel of our time in the Mexican states of Puebla, Veracruz, Oaxaca, and Chiapas. Enjoy, subscribe, and share! 🙂
On the morning of Monday, January 8, we woke up earlier than we would have liked, thanks to the blaring trumpets that seemed to be right outside our window. We later found out that the noise was thanks to the local police celebrating their ability to make noise at an ungodly hour without consequences because […]
