R&R day

I’m currently writing this beach-side in Mexico with my feet in the Atlantic ocean. Life sure is hard right now.

Calakmul was an incredible site yesterday morning. Scott and I got up early and hiked into the site before it was open. We tried to do as much of the large route as possible - we didn’t complete it but we saw a lot of really cool new stuff. The first route we did really only took us to the money spots and so this was a cool opportunity to visit some of the residential areas. The rooms were actually decently spacious, with an elevated stone platform to sleep on. Life was probably still pretty rough for the rank-and-file Mayans.

Our drive was fairly easy yesterday. The worst part was a 60 kilometer drive on a two lane, narrow road from Calakmul to the main highway. We’re staying at Costa de Cocos which is near the town of Xcalak. The plan here is simple: relax. Our trip has been rockin’ so far, but it’s nice to have other people take care of everything for you.

We also met up with the last members of our crew - John and Tam. They’ve been in the Mexico/Guatemala region for the last six weeks. This now brings us up to 5 vehicles and 9 people.

Well, I’ve got to run. For some reason I’m exhausted even though I didn’t actually do anything all day. Tomorrow we cross our 2nd border and head to Belize. We will be staying the night in Belize City.