Sands Las Arenas Mazatlan

... as we made along the way. Awesome people! Great friends! It was a real joy to travel for little pockets of time with interesting, like-minded folks that hopefully we will see again in some other corner of the world. Q: Was 8 months a good amount of time to travel? Too long? Too short? B and E: For us it was perfect. We didn't feel rushed, we saw just about everything we hoped to see, and by the end we were ...

... years. Wasn´t too impressed at all (to be fair I had been warned in advance by a couple of other travellers) ... Mazatlan seems to be a kind of Mexican version of Benidorm which caters largely to the American package tourist. There are loads of concrete high rise hotels & time share condominiums all up the coast , with more on the way judging by the amount of construction. Lots of American restaurant chains like Applebees , McD´s , Dominos and so on ...

... with my friends Caitlin and Orion. Went to Stone Island and again ate a lot and consumed lots of cerveza, swam in the ocean. Shopped at the plaza in the old part of town every day. Beautiful sunsets EVERY NIGHT -- unbelievable. It was just what I needed and provided me with some inspiration for what's coming up next.

... used for only part of the night. They are not inexpensive, and they are usually super clean and well finished. Anyhow, we were not interested in the 4 hour rate, so our cost was $46.00 for the entire night. These places are very private with a large Private Garage for each room. My motorcycle was very happy staying in a Sex Motel, as the garage had a beautiful tiled ...

... Daydreams arrived the next day. Kate played with Jackie several times and learned how to make string bracelets. This has now replaced beading as the all consuming pastime! One of the days, we took a guided jungle river trip with several other cruisers. As we wound along the river lined with mangroves we saw a multitude of birds and, to Christopher's delight, crocodiles of all sizes! From tiny ones to huge ones, we saw them all, along with turtles ...

... lunch. Nice waterfall on the patio. Don't miss the Giant Pandas, Gorillas, Elephants, and Giraffs. Nice landscaping in the zoo. Adorable Koala Bears!!! This place is huge...about 100 acres !!! Ride the moving walkways, when possible !!! Since we are only eight (8) miles from the Mexico border, we decide to go for it on Friday and check out Tijuana. We park at the Mexicoach Parking area for $7.00 and buy our $8.00/pp RT tickets to the ...

... chips and a pickled gherkin - which Neil thought was the best bit!!!!!!!! He says it was actually pooey! We did have to wait ages for them to serve us though. Not sure why, probably because we didn't tip the bar-tender!!! Back at the hostel it was film night. No-one seemed to want to watch a film, and when it eventually went on, everyone pretty much left!! We watched Kill Bill, but fraid i didn't;t get it, and so gave up and went to bed. They gave us ...

... and harangued we sought a taxi outta there ASAP. . . we headed down to Rosarito Beach, a funny thing seeing as how I'd headed down there under similar circumstances almost exactly 1 year ago with Pat and Matt. There we partied and drank, had fun, spent too much money. Coming back the next day, all was well, and we intended to walk right back across the border again. To our shock, approaching the Tiajuana gate we saw a line stretch ...

... reminded to bring it as I nearly forgot and needed it to get back into the USA), and you just walk over a bridge from the border and you are in Mexico, well, 'commercial' Mexico.(if you can call it that). One thing that did make me laugh was a woman in front who looked like she did have all of her senses but seemed to be wearing a crash helmet and carrying an umbrella over her head. I think she was a bit paranoid that the sky was falling? Must have ...

I was woken up last night by some mallet mashing and this is what we found when we woke up. Apparently, some campers did not obey the "don't pitch your tent so close to another tent that you can hear them snore" rule and pitched up right next to our tent. Our tent is the one on the right and I was personally insulted by the ...