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Arrival in Mexico
After a wrong turn to the wrong resort, a nice fellow at the front desk of San something lets us use the hotel's internet to figure out where we actually have reservations. We are staying down the road and around the bend at Las Palmas. He heads us in the right direction, and we are on our way.
Las Palmas is gorgeous- a mixture of …
Beach Soccer, Street Tacos, and Fine Music
It's a loungy morning we spend at the condo, taking our time getting up and getting going. Well, it takes me a while to get up. Greg is up at the crack of dawn, drinking coffee and exploring the resort while I am snoozing.
We start the morning by walking down the beach to where Roger's benefit soccer tournament is taking place. This …
Mexico for the first time...
... right on the Pacific, with some wonderful seafood in blazing sunshine.
We wander the market streets filled with vendors flogging their wares, in search of a hammock for the back of the ambulance. A rowdy crowd of college kids sit atop a beach bar veranda, heckling mexican girls as they go past. It doesn’t feel like we’re in Mexico just yet, but as at any time I enter a country where I don’t speak the language, I still feel ...
MesoAmerica Rally - Mexico at last!
... trying to explain to people why we were still in Carlsbad.
But that's not the best part. Peter, At the 11th hour, after hours of searching the house and resigning ourselves to a morning sitting in the emergency passport office, only finds the passport carefully hidden between the pages of a book. Jack Kerouac's On The Road no less. Very apt.
So after a rocky start we finally hit the road a ...
On the road at last.
This is it! Today we leave to put our lives and sanity on the line to drive an ambulance to Honduras. After some last minute photoshoots and meeting the head of the Growers First charity, we're just about set to hit the road. Peter has also managed to find his passport, so we bypass a trip to the embassy and a hefty sum to get emergency papers. We eventually manage to set off in the afternoon, and the adventure begins!
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