Hotel Parador Margarita San Cristobal de las Casas

... our door shut against the force 7 gale. Luckily the next day the sun shone and we went to see some (more!) ruins at Coba, and then to snorkel in a beautiful cenote. When we got back to the beach we got free massages and then went for a swim. I got knocked over by a huge wave and my bikini bottoms almost came off in front of everyone on the beach.

In the evening everyone went to bed early. The bar men shut the bar and invited me and my room mate to the beach to drink tequilas as ...

... I woke up at 9am and was still drunk but I had to get up because I wanted to put my camera in for repair. My camera had failed me once again in Panama, first the screen went blank and when I took the battery out to reset it I couldnīt get it back in again. So I managed to successfully negotiate the subway, and the local metro bus to get a long way across town to the WTC where Olympus was located. Even managed to ask a load of directions in Spanish and was fully ...

... different to what there was but it is too much effort to explain precisely. From the higher fans a waterfall was flowing, but when the water hit the moss fans and flowed off them, the wind blew the droplets away so the waterfall drifted off and dispersed. I think this was the most beautiful thing I had seen in my 7 months away (apart from Joss with a Glastonbury backdrop). Chances are that it appeared more beautiful because I had not heard anything about this ...

... featured turtles, and one of them was dead, and looked like it had been dead for awhile. Finally, we got to see Chiapas’ pride and joy, the Panther, and the poor guy was showing mental signs, doing repetitive motions, which happens when animals are cooped up in a small area.

The next day was Christina’s birthday so we got up early and had breakfast in town, then we went to our hotel for a day of luxury. Interesting enough, the weather had a turn for the worst. By the time ...

... 8221; would be elicited by myself and/or Barbara. There was a bit of revulsion associated with the “Yikes Factor” and generally it would rear its ugly head in some towns/ cities we visited once we got outside the “historical center”. For instance in a city like Aguascalientes it happened only blocks from the zocalo, in others it took longer, while in some it did not appear.

Let it be said that San Cristobal de Las Casas ...

... to see the Tiffany built glass curtain in the theater. I tried to get some picks but really hard to capture. You'll just have to go and see it yourself. The Government building which name I have forgotten is full of Diego Rivera murals as well. The Frida Khalo museum is in what was once her and Diego's home. In it one will see everything from scribbles on bits of paper, letters between Frida, Diego and others. Mostly personal, some ...

... hurrah). Was invited to join the group from last night (Phil; 42 year old Essex fella, funny guy), Angel; 25 year old Northern Irish fella who makes bongs for people and smokes gear every wake moment, Lucy, from Sydney and Claire from Ireland, who's Brazilian boyfriend is a bullrider) for what is supposed to be the best goat stew ever. Walked through a market and eventually found the place. The stew was delicious ($3). Walked around town and saw some amazing sights of ...

... party-affiliation, and visit purposes. Finally, you are given a little piece of paper with your info and allowed to wander.

The Caracole was nothing but a row of buildings, and nobody really lives there. Instead, people take turns working the womenīs craft-coopīs, in government offices, and doing special projects. Also in town is a large secondary boarding school.

The coolest part of the town is the amazing murals that cover all the buildings and relay the Zapatistas ...

... to developing countries struggling to contain lab-made diseases, the u.s. will not record profitability. without selling large cars to the american consumer, the canadian oil sand mines, which are producing more pollution than any other development of its kind in the world, the u.s. would not record profitability. thanks to the blood thirsty, war-mongering psychotically fascist imperialists dick cheney, donald rumsfeld, paul wolfowitz, john ashcroft, rupert murdoch ...

... would help me find an answer. that place was mexico city. who was this oh great and powerful mr. taco anyway? the tacology convention kicked off some time around midnight. after sitting through a promotional video, meeting with the board of directors, and researching the history of the taco at mexico city's museo de antropologica, i have a passage here with should dispel any doubts about the importance of father manuel del taco's work in colonial mexico. father manuel ...