Hola, todos!

I´ve made it to mexico!

Just had a muchly fun couple of weeks with Ben & Roni, road trippin´ from Vegas, through route 66, the grand canyon, more national parks than you can shake a turkey vulture at, through to Los Alamos (atomic bomb design centre and general scary zombie town), Roswell (I believe. Definitely), and an awesome cave with a few hundred thousand bats. Between that lot, the options for lame running jokes was just endless. I´m supprised roni didn´t go all texas chainsaw on our asses.

Onwards to El paso, I crossed the rio grande not once, but 3 times, in increasingly confusing attempts to get the right stamps on my passport (it seems you can wander through into mexico without anyone looking at your passport or ID even once. Getting back´s a little trickier).

That done, I stretched my laughable spanish to the limit whilst trying to work out which local bus would get me to the bus station, then watched 3 truely terrible movies turned up to the max in spanish on my way to Chihuahua. It´s probably a good job they were bad - it turns out a predictable plot is just as predictable, even if you only understand every fourth word.

Chihuahua´s nice. Not seen any small annoying dogs yet though, which is kinda disappointing. Lots of revolutionary history here though - cars riddled with bullet holes and the like - nice!

Tomorrow I head to a place called the Copper Canyon, through which a supposedly amazing train journey weaves its way. The canyon is bigger, longer and deeper than the grand canyon, yet not being in the states, it´s almost completely unknown. I´ll report back in a few days.


Hope everyone´s well,


Will.
(Chihuahua, Mexico)

Holidays at home

Howdy y'all,

I really have been pretty lax at providing updates. On the other hand, I've been pretty busy...

- Getting a lift to the rugby with the New Zealand Airforce band (and getting drunk with them on the base afterwards)
- Pretending I'm famous on the Fijian resort that turned out to be the set of celebrity love island. With Kava (google it)
- Swimming with sharks. Really, really big, 12' long bull sharks. Loads of them. Without a cage. Brilliant.
- Dead good snorkelling just off a tiny island, and meeting up with Ed, Mo and Dee
- Getting sunburnt in San Francisco, and totally failing to meet up with any of the people I know who live round there
- Flying halfway round the world back to the UK for a week
- Watching my brother get married! Congratulations Matt & Suzi!
- Celebrating my brother getting married. Quite a lot. My head still hurts.

And in a couple of days I fly back to the US of A to hunt for aliens for a couple of weeks with Ben (other brother) and Roni. Which rocks.


Will.
(London)