Villa Santa Pilar Cozumel

... water fountians of different shapes and sizes along the way. It ended in a large park dedicated to the steel industry. Sounds ugly, but there were more free museums, and it was actually pretty (except for the large furnace stacks).

Heading back to the bus stop, and thinking we perhaps should have booked an earlier bus out of town, we started poking around looking for a resturant for dinner. Oddly enough, all the ...

The whole stay here has just been strange. The first morning here I preached in a church - in spanish! First time since 2006! Even though I took out my guages and put in clear spacers, they asked me to take them out, as well as my eyebrow ring. They said I need to be "all things to all men" although that is not what it is talking about. The ministry gave us a nice little apartment for 5 days (full of cockroaches) in a ...

... got books together and on a drive to the event - suddenly both Rob and I felt that we should not go. When we told eachother, we were shocked to find out that we both felt the same. It was already getting close to dark out. Today, when we talked to Jum, he said "Yesterday was a bad day. There was a shootout where you guys would have been!" I am really thanking the Lord for protecting us! So tomorrow - we head for Tampico, Mexico!

We spent a great 5 days in Monterrey. A really lovely city, different to what we expected. Its an industrial town so we expected factories etc but they are all in the suburbs. The city is suurounded by a beautiful backdrop of mountains that the locals are very proud of and very much represent their city. However, the best thing about Monterrey was the people we met. Of ...

... were to be more ships in port on the same day? Arriving at the ATV place we were greeted by Victor who welcomed us all and gave a detailed explanation of what we would be doing. They had large lockers available for a rental of $2 to stow our belongings since we wouldn't need them on the ATVs. After a safety briefing and how to ride, we climbed on our machines, fastened helmets, adjusted hankerchiefs over our face and were off. The trails ...

... at 8pm until cancun....bad, very bad...Monterrey is pretty much 1000 km away, we check the other flights of the other companies...nothing...we check rental cars for one way....very expensive....

finally we make the mexican way: get in Miguel's car, buy 2 six packs and drive ahead as fast as possible...in the truth that was very cool to drive this landscapes, i could shot the train photo that i really like (see ...

hola everyone, Well we made it to cozumel. It is really nice here, we have not done much but haveing a good time. The place we are staying is really nice, I will post some pics of it. The water out front of the place is such a pretty color. Going ...

Russell went out on his own (he's 18 but was given strict instructions of NO CARLOS 'N CHARLIES. Think he obeyed??) It got to be close to 11:30pm so Clare, William and I ventured out to the Square to see what happens in Cozumel at midnight. It was PACKED! Great fun. Very few turistas. All of the local officials were on a stage proclaiming how wonderful the new year would be. We could see our ...

... our plane only leaves at 9:30am not to mention that with the new 183A tollroad we're a mere 20 minutes from the airport. Finally arriving a whole 3 hours in advance he realized the stop over in Houston is only going to be 35minutes so off we go again straight into panic land. I kid you not. But as predicted everything went well. TIP: Because of the bad weather in Austin we had a lot of overbooked and cancelled flights. If you can afford to stay over ...

... to go back to sleep - after all, there is only so much one can do during the day, so as much time as possible should be taken up sleeping. hehe. Yes, there are actually quite a few hours in the day on this cruise that are a little "extra". Jenn, Kate and I went into town - Cozumel is the quintesential Mexican tourist town, not unlike La Paz. Pretty nice and built up and pretty clean, and just crawling with tourists! Of course I ...