Lost posts

I've been extremely re miss in my travel blogging, but it's hard when you're on the go! Also, I guess because I ended up spending so much time in Mexico (due to passport mishaps) I figured I could just condense it all into one huge post. Or something.

Where do I begin? Well I'm now in Costa Rica having hopped across the Mexican/Guatemalan border (worst day ever... 14 hour bus ride during the day... I feel like I slept for a lot of it, but I had food poisoning so it wasn't a good sleep), mostly slept my way through Antigua, Guatemala (still due to food poisoning making me too weak to do anything) and flew to San Jose today. I'm here for another full day because I needed a place to stop where I could take a phone interview and big cities are always a good place for that.

I only have one more week of this solo Central American adventure. I should say "Central American" but really it was more just a Mexican adventure. And less an adventure and more like a leisurely stroll, with a few overnight buses, many plane rides, lots and lots of beach time and probably not as much culture as I initially intended to see. And until the food poisoning, a lot of good eating!

In all honesty I can't say that I've really SEEN a lot or really hit up all the things you're meant to see when you go to Mexico. I've met quite a few people, wandered around a lot of parks and markets, and had a lot of time to think, think, think. I haven't pushed myself hard to see everything, even though I've had only a limited amount of time, and I feel like I've just drifted from place to place. This doesn't make me feel unfulfilled, but just... like I'm not sure what I've spent the past month doing?

Anyway, quick catch up on events in Mexico:
1. Mexico City - got my new emergency passport! Toured around the city and went to the archeology museum. In hindsight trying to cram so much history into two hours? Not so doable...
2. Puerto Escondido - surfie beach town where I met up with a girl I'd met earlier and met a really wild Swiss girl. Lots of delicious sushi. And it turns out I am completely hopeless at surfing which shouldn't be a surprise really...
3. San Cristobal - all I can think about this place is food poisoning and evil vegetarian buffet restaurants that give you food poisoning! So much for trying to eat healthy! I also went horse riding and had a really freaking annoying horse that kept bashing me into trees and bushes and flicking mud up at me. Remind me why I used to like horses?

And that's it! Cloud forests, volcanoes and hot springs in Costa Rica coming up soon! Yay!

Mexico

As I was travelling by boat out here to Isla Mujeres I had a lot of thoughts floating through my head and now that I´m here in front of a computer it´s all a big blank. I´m enjoying Mexico so far for the most part, but I´ve decided that due to lack of time Im just going to limit my time here and get moving along to Belize almost straight after Havana.

It was pretty rough sleeping last night, my room is like a sweat box. Six people crammed into a little room with only three fans, the room ends up being hotter than outside. I drifted in and out of delirium and was rudely awoken by a guy in my room turning on the toilet light so I got up and lay in a hammock outside near the party dance floor. Not the best place to fall asleep, but it was cool at least. This morning I got up early and lay in a hammock again, much quieter this time.

I can´t help but feel slightly wrong and out of place here. Getting used to the travelling life style again is hard. Being a solo traveller is harder than I remember. The place Im staying at now is apparently a party hostel, never my favourite kind. Not that I have anything against partying and all of that, but I just find that I tend to enjoy myself more at places where its a bit more chilled out and relaxed and theres not always this constant need to go go go.

Im glad that Im here and pushing myself out of my comfort zone, but it just seems so much harder this time around. Im older and I dont want the same things anymore. Perhaps I know myself better, I dont even know. it just feels really different this time around. I still like talking to new people and looking around and doing new things, but... I dont know.

I feel kind of like a fraud or something. Like im travelling but im just pretending and everyone else is the genuine article. does that even make sense? its all surreal like im floating way above myself and looking down on it all.

I wasnt as impressed with isla mujeres as everyone else said i would be. Is there something Im missing? Its just a kind of pretty, fairly touristy island with nice sand and clear water. Is that spoilt or what? I think Im beached out. Its great but I dont like to just lie around like a beached whale...