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Trips: Us Discovering the Latin Americas ryan & debbrial's Travel Blog Shorthand link: http://blogabond.com/ryan_debb

We met through a mutual friend in college about 5 years ago. We were friends for about 4 years and dated for a year and half. We recently got married on Sunday, May 24, 2009.

Now for the fun part... We decided not to do the typical buy a house and settling down, instead it was sell everything we own and follow our desire to travel. We are on our journey through Central and South America (backpacking, couch surfing, hostels, camping, whatever) for the next 3-4 years. While in Central and South America we plan on working at a variety volunteer camps, meeting fellow travelers, teaching English local people, surfing, enjoying the beautiful sceneries and environment, visiting some tourist sites and really engaging the culture that surrounds us.

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Maria Sabina

Playa del Carmen, Mexico

A morning in Cancun was all we needed to decide to move down the road. So after having breakfast and collecting all our stuff we walk back and forth on Tulum Ave. trying to find ADO (the bus station). Finally after completely backtracking twice we found it. (I guess we lost this Amazing Race challenge LOL)

About a hour later on the bus we arrived in [[Mexico/Playa-del-Carmen]] to be greeted by what I can only explain as the jolly beach bum of the town. He lead us to the hostel we were looking for anyways and gave us hiStory lesson of Maria Sabina; whom the hostel was named after.

After hearing his Story and seeing her picture on the wall we thought of her as the pioneer of the Mexican Hippies with a joint in her mouth and a handful of mushrooms.

Maria Sabina Hostel

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ryan & debbrial on October 7, 2009 from Playa del Carmen, Mexico

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First Night in Mexico

Cancun, Mexico

So we made it here to Cancun and the weather is great, about 32c and 90% humidity. After hanging out at the airport, getting adjusted and doing some people watching we got a cab to our hostel. It is a lot nicer than we expected. Clean sheets, towels and room. We also saw we had a roommate, an Australian girl. She has been traveling for 2 months; starting in Mexico City and around the Gulf of Mexico to Cancun. Next we hit the town to find a bank, a place to exchange currency and have dinner. Now its time for bed. Night!!!

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ryan & debbrial on October 6, 2009 from Cancun, Mexico

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Flying Out

Los Angeles, United States

We went to check-in to our flight on line and only to find out that it was cancelled. Oh crap!! What a way to start an adventure as big as this. After sitting on the phone for an hour we ended up getting rebooked for an early flight (like 6:45AM) with a layout in Mexico City.

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ryan & debbrial on October 5, 2009 from Los Angeles, United States

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Ryan's Dreadlocks

Los Angeles, United States

Venice Beach, Los Angeles, California

Before the Dreads

First of all I want to set your minds at ease just a little. When most people think of dreadlock they think gross, dirty hair you don’t wash for weeks or even months, it has tons of dirt and wax and grease and bugs in it. But this is just a misconception. I guess for some people this could be the case and some people do try to create dreadlocks themselves by putting a bunch of products in their hair then tangling it all up. But most people and Ryan went to a professional dreadlock hair dresser (it’s a pretty chill job that makes good money actually). So for Ryan's dreadlocks the only product he used was a relaxer to make the hair more workable; then it was washed out. After it was dry the guy took a small section of hair and started backcombing it till the hair was in a big knot. Then he used his fingers to twist it up and used string to tie it off. And repeat...and repeat..... About 5 hours later he was tying off the last one. So no dirt, no grease and definitely no NO Washing. It can be washed as often as Normal hair.

Since pictures speak a thousand words I will let the pictures do the rest of the talking.

This is hair relaxer to make sure Ryan's hair is damaged enought. LOL

About 4 hours into the dreads

After the Dreads

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ryan & debbrial on October 1, 2009 from Los Angeles, United States

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