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Chris Pagett

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Chris and Em's Adventure

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Made it home

Cranbrook, Canada

Made it home after a 17 hour day of travel!!!!
I'm very cold!!!!!!!!!!!

permalink written by   Chris Pagett on April 1, 2009 from Cranbrook, Canada
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A night in Atlanta

Atlanta, United States

Spend the evening catching up with an old high school friend.
Although it has been 12 years since we saw each other last, it felt like no time had passed.

permalink written by   Chris Pagett on March 31, 2009 from Atlanta, United States
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A day in Cancun

Cancun, Mexico

Just one more day left

permalink written by   Chris Pagett on March 30, 2009 from Cancun, Mexico
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Hitting the beaches

Tulum, Mexico

Just taking it easy on the Caribbean

permalink written by   Chris Pagett on March 26, 2009 from Tulum, Mexico
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More Mayan Magic

Tikal, Guatemala

We made it to Tikal. A four hour bus to Guatemala city from Santa Ana and an eight hour overnight bus to Flores got us in at five this morning. We booked a ride to Tikal for six and after breakfast we were checking out the ruins by 8:30am.
They are as amazing as Palenque only there are a lot more ruins and the big temple are huge. The tallest one is about 65 metres high, siffice to say we did a lot of climbing. I took us five hours to hike through the ruins and we could have spend much longer there if we were really going to explore everthing.
Now that We´ve done Tikal it´s off to Chichén Itzá for the last leg of our ruins travels. It will be another long travel day that starts at six tomorrow morning and ends at possibly ends at Chetumal 12 hours later. We´re not sure if we will stay there tomorrow night or move on up the coast a bit.

We´ll try to get some pics post while we are in Mexico. Internet seemed much better there.

permalink written by   Chris Pagett on March 23, 2009 from Tikal, Guatemala
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La Ruta de las Flores

Santa Ana, El Salvador

We are now on our way back to Guatemala. To Tikal to be exact. Santa Ana is a nice little city, however there is little in the way of restaurants and things to do. We spend yesterday on chicken buses touring though La Ruta de las Flores (the route of the flowers). I expect it would be beautiful at the end of the rainy season but at this time of year it is pretty dry. We did see a few nice flowers and got to smell the fermenting coffee beans while riding the bus, which I guess is unique to this time of year.
We stopped at a cute little town on the way named Juayua. It had more culture than any other place we have been in El Salvador with Mayan items being sold at the market, a huge outdoor food fair and live music in the centre square. Em finally got the shopping bug while we were there. The round trip took up our whole day and as we were driving from Sonsonate back to Santa Ana we saw some beautiful scenary with the volcanos in the background.
All in all El Salvador was great, I guess that's why we spend two weeks here instead of the planned 3 days.

permalink written by   Chris Pagett on March 22, 2009 from Santa Ana, El Salvador
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Leaving La Libertad

El Sunzal, El Salvador

We are taking off tomorrow morning for a little exploring in the Santa Ana region of El Salvador before we goto Tikal. I pulled a muscle under my ribcage so surfings out so there´s no point in staying.
Things are still great except that are trip is over in less that 2 weeks, but I thinks Em´s a little homesick. So maybe it´s a good thing where going home soon.

Check out this youtube vid I posted!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yUZiIFwEDC4


permalink written by   Chris Pagett on March 18, 2009 from El Sunzal, El Salvador
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El Salavdor Rocks

San Salvador, El Salvador

Hey there! Well I´ve been letting the blog slip a little. Partly because the internet is costly, the connections is not very good, I risk losing what I type due to a power outage and I´m having to much fun to be sitting in front of a computer!
I forgot to write about one of the most amazing parts of the trip. On Sunday the 8th I climbed Pakya just outside of Antigua. It is an active volcano with a continous lava flow. It was amazing. I stood 2 feet from flowing molten lava! It was incredibly hot, I only stood there long enough to get a picture and then had to move. It felt like the camera would start melting.

For the last few days now Em and I have been on the south coast of El Salvador in La Libertad at Playa El Tunco, a cool beach town. There are at least 20 seperate beaches down the coast line. I´ve given surfing a go and really enjoy it. It´s going to take a long time to get good at it though. The waves are huge right now due to the full moon. I went out the first two days we were here but haven´t gone out since. I´m going to go out tomorrow though, it´s suppose to clam down. Em and I decided to skip Belize and spend a few less days in the Carribbean so we could stay here longer. El Salvador is beautiful, the people are great, the weather is amazing and it is very inexpensive unlike the rest of the places we have been. We are staying in a hostel for 14 dollars a night which includes internet, and a kitchen so we can cook our own meals. That alone saves us an incredible amount of money.

We´re having a great and very lazy time right now.



permalink written by   Chris Pagett on March 14, 2009 from San Salvador, El Salvador
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SURFS UP

San Salvador, El Salvador

Surfing lessons today! It was as expected.... hard. Had to take a 2 hour nap afterwards I´m also a little under the weather. The lessons weren´t great since the guy who was teaching me didn´t speak English and I hardly speak Spanish so feedback was no existent with the exception of hand signals. I did alright though and with rent a board tomorrow and try it myself.
Em and I plan on staying here longer than we had initally planned since it´s inexpensive and beautiful. We are probably not going to go to Belize

permalink written by   Chris Pagett on March 11, 2009 from San Salvador, El Salvador
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Surfs up in El Salvador

San Salvador, El Salvador

We are leaving on Monday morning for El Salvador. I´ll be surfing or more precisely falling off a board into the ocean on Tuesday

permalink written by   Chris Pagett on March 8, 2009 from San Salvador, El Salvador
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