Bad attitudes were ruling the day yesterday. John told me that this trip has not been that much fun for him so far- what with Mexican music blaring night and day because of the holidays, mexican traffic (enuff to make anyone's hair stand on end), the crazy street patterns (not to mention the narrowness of the streets), paying almost every night for camping (in Baja we pay by the month and most definitely cheaper), taking money out of our accounts almost every other day, and no surf to write home about.
Will we go to Guatemala, check out the beaches there, and then visit my SIL Gwyn and then beat it back to Baja?? Or will we keep going? That is the serious question that we are pondering at the moment. If we can't find a beach that we like and some serious surf, why should we go on?
Of course, it doesn't help that today I am fighting a head cold, painfully worked out thighs from the Palenque Pyramids, and cramps... ugh.
We went to Palenque and we were really in the jungle. We stayed at the Maya Bell, a trailer park that was inside the entrance of the Palenque National Park, and we were across the street from the museum. The Palenque pyramids are really cool to look at, but also very steep on every step and in the middle of the jungle. While we were at our trailer park, Teresa managed to see a howler monkey family group and we all watched them for a while. Later when I was doing handwash (which never dried there due to the humidity and lack of breeze and sunshine), we listened to the howler monkey male chase another animal away with his roars and barking. That was totally cool to listen to.
We are now in San Cristobal de la Casas, which was the town taken over by the Zapatistas in 1994 when they were fighting for their land rights. Of course, now it is just a colonial town that tourists go to with way too skinny streets for our camper to navigate.
More on Jan. 5th or so when we are in Guatemala City visiting Gwyn.....
Happy New Year and Belated Merry Christmas or Happy Channukah!
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