Posada Margarita Jalapa

... samples even though I said I would not buy - what's a girl to do - it was downhill all the way!? The main Texote falls was 2 big drops through a narrow gorge with rickety bridge over - always nervous when see the sign "cross at own risk"! - the bridge lead further up river to some smaller falls good for bathing (in summer or for masochists) - there was another leading up the high near vertical cliff to a viewpoint at the top of ...

I heard about couch surfing dot com so I decided to try it out. It's a bunch of people that are willing to let random people sleep on their couches. It's a pretty cool idea but it's a little sketchy at times and you never really know what you are going to get. Fortunately I ended up with some really cool people the first time so ...

... die Seilenden an ihren Hueften befestigen. Nach ei***** Zeit lassen sich die 4 "Flieg**" zeitgleich nach aussen fallen und fliegen, Kopf nach unten, langsam um den Mast h**um, waehrend sich das Seil langsam imm** weit** abwickelt und fu** die Drehung sorgt. Jed** d** vi** vollzieht 13 Drehungen, bis ** unten am Boden landet, was insgesamt 52 Drehungen sind und einen vollen Zyklus im Kalend** d** Totonaken darstellt. Es wird uns **zaehlt, das das Ritual urspruenglich zur ...

Written from Jalcomulco, Mexico: A phone call was just received directly from Jordan at 19:35 our time. Joel is awake and recognizes his brother as well as other friends and family. He has little memory of the incident but is making jokes and talking about kayaking. One lung continues to labour but the doctors plan to take him out of the ICU tomorrow. The family will be sending us further updates as they come along.

Written from Esprit in Jalcomulco: 15:00hr We have had a particularly good but particularly long night hence the delayed update. Yesterday evening Joel's condition was trending very favorably and many of his vital signs and organ functions had drastically improved. Joel has displayed normal function of his heart, stomach, kidneys, liver, pancreas..... his lungs are drastically improving but remain laboured and potentially susceptible to infection. Although still ...

... students immediately began CPR, an Automatic External Defibrillator (AED), which was on hand and was used within minutes to successfully gain cardiac function and rhythm. A rapid evacuation followed and within two hours of the incident he was admitted to the hospital in Xalapa, Veracruz - Mexico, where further testing and diagnosis are being performed. He is currently in the Intensive Care Unit at the CEMS ...

... be myself. We started on the Baranca Grande with Mel and Jim guiding the two rafts, then they switched and let us take turns to guide after the technical first section. This was kind of exciting and, after switching, both rafts managed to wrap on large rocks. Ours was unwrapped by us with no help from the other crew (phew....now we don`t owe "jugs" to them) wheras we needed to set up a z-drag to unwrap theirs (they owe us :)....). It was cool to see the ...

... an agreement to make things easier for tourists and the people who live here to travel to Honduras, El Salvador and Guatemala, but it means we don't get more days on our passport if we go to those countries, so have to go to a different country. After Granada and Masaya we want to go to the beaches near San Jaun del Sur for a few days. We need to be back to our secret beach in Costa Rica by May 10th because we are going to stay there for a month.

... if we get a lot of business maybe people could make orders for special occasions like birthdays and such... The only snag is in order to cook the quantity we want to sell we need a normal sized oven which no one in this group has; they only have the adobe ovens which doesn't work so well with all this rain....We did manage to plant a ton of Morongo trees which have these magical leaves that are full of vitamins and minerals and are great to use dried and sprinkled over food ...

... to walk, despite reading in my travel guide that its a 45 minute walk. Well the book was right plus Jalapa is on top of the mountrains and none of the streets are flat. If thats not enough, I think nearby areas are technically considered rainforest, so it is very humid. Nevertheless, I keep trucking on, unsure of where I´m going. With a little luck, I actually find the place fairly easily. It is called Hostel de la Niebla, they have a website if anybody wants to look(I ...