Suites 9 Puerto Morelos

... constantly hazy apparently due to burning of sugarcane and humidity due to impending rainy season. The town was so buggy, firts thing I did was to buy repellent, not that it ever works - placebo effect - if I think they're not biting I won't scratch & turn my bites into suppurating sores that bleed streams of pus down my legs!! Had some of the mole Xiqueña (distinguishing feature apparently use of 7 different chillis) for ...

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 ...

... p** Taxi ins Museum. Es ist in d** Tat riesengroß, und beh**b**gt Funde d** Golfkueste von Mexiko, von denen viele einige tausend Jahre alt sind. Die tonnenschw**en riesigen Felskoepfe d** Olmeken sind besond**s faszini**end. Wir lassen uns einige Sachen von uns**em englischsprachigen Audioguide **kla**en und lesen dazu die spanischen Beschriftungen, so dass wir gleich etwas Spanisch ueben koennen. Wir sehen auch viele Funde aus El Tajin, ein** Ausgrabungsstaette weit** im Norden ...

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 ...

... cover along the length of the rapid. After this we continued on and made good time to the start of the Pescados section and continued through some of the bigger rapids on the Pescados. <br><br><br><br>To describe the events which happened next, I am going to use the official statement:<br><br><br><br>"At approximately 11:30am on November 18th, 2008 Joel, a student participating on the WILD program lost ...

So, after our hectic night with the ants we awoke early the next morning to hike up to Cotelamani - a large hill which sits in the middle of the convergence of 9 canyons and therefore a site of special spiritual importance locally. In ancient times, the dead were carried to the top and buried there with their possessions - a real honour considering that the hike is 1 hour up a steep and difficult path without a load ...

... trade and other essentials. The firstpart of the hike is up a winding footpath leading into the canyon. After a short walk amongst the mango trees, we came to some pools at the start of the steep canyon climb, where we stopped for a snack. To get up the canyonfrom here involved a little more effort. There were a lot of climbs up boulders and through cracks in between. There was a lot of bum pushing and arm pulling to get us all up, and Jim lent a new meaning to foot ...

... find something to say. We ended up discussing religion (it´s not easy to explain my views even in English) and washing our clothes. I somehow managed to offer to do the washing up after lunch and was shown to a large stone basin full of water which is scooped out in a bowl to rinse the plates. It was an interesting experience. So, back to the scary stuff.... Yesterday we ran the Actopan river, which starts with a 15ft waterfall. I knew about this before we got there and, due ...

... phone and computer work arranging tour reservations etc. Will see....then he says I may not go home. Eder also took me to Mega where I picked up a few things for breakfast and lunch. Place is nice although Puerto Morelos was not where I thought it was!! Surprise for me. But nice place nonetheless. Clean and comfortable. Got the Internet set up so I'm in business now. Property manager had to come set it up for me. Nice people.