Day 70: Failure to Launch
Okay. Here's the situation. The USA does not like Cuba. It prefers its citizens to spend money in Zimbabwe, Burma or North Korea, obviously, as there are no sanctions against…
Day 69: Grand Bahama
As I write this, I'm sitting in a lounge on the day cruise over to The Bahamas. It's usually about $40 there and back, but because it's Spring Break, they've…
Day 68: Spring Break
Spent the day on the phone and on the net trying to sort out, how the hell I'm going to get to Cuba. However, I did win a $10 bet…
Day 67: Coyote Ugly
I slept through to Orlando in Florida and then got on my last bus (for a few days at least) heading for Fort Lauderdale.This time last week, I was in…
Day 66: The Lone Star State
I've got to say, the Greyhound buses ARE THE WORST FORM OF TRANSPORT IN THE WORLD — grotty, no films, no snacks, grumpy-as-hell drivers... My first driver actually got pulled…
Day 65: Entering America
All I got to see of Mexico City was the outskirts and the bus station, but I hear it's not much too look at anyway. Driving reasonably close to Tikal…