The Motorcycle Diaries

   

 After travelling to Cuba a few times, I've really learned a lot about the impact of Che's revolution on the Cuban people.  Fighting for people that weren't even his own.

This film is based on the memoirs of Che Guevara's diary he wrote in while he travelled across Latin America on motorcycle with a buddy of his from back home in Argentina.  Inspiring after the revolution and before then, Che Guevara was a revolutionary before his time.  

This is one of my all time favorite movies and doesn't hurt that Gael Garcia Bernal is the main character.

Birds of the Same Feathers

I'm still not quite sure if I'm ready to rock this look, but everyone from LA to NYC has at least one in their hair. They come in both synthetic and 100% natural hair that can BE curled, straightened, whatever your heart desires.  I'll let you be the judge of these:

Feather Hair Extensions

Jennifer Love Hewitt with a bold yellow, red and  orange- very earthy tones

Surfers Playground

El Tunco, El Salvador

A small town 5 minutes away from La Libertad filled with many tourist surfers from the USA and Australia, rushing off to catch their morning waves.  It was either tourists that were overly into surfing or some really cool and laid-back locals.  There isn't much to do in El Tunco during the day unless you surf, otherwise you'll be getting ripped off and paying $15 to use the pool at one of the hotels on the beach -the waves in the beaches were too strong and dangerous to swim in.  None the less- it is a beautiful place to visit, to enjoy the most delicious street pupusa's, cheap seafood and drinks, with a more than fun nightlife of live music, Batucada to be exact with a fire show and dancing.  Tons of people come out to the beach with coolers of alcohol and just drink all night by the ocean, while listening to the live music.

Nuts for Coconuts

Vendors with the Salvadoreno cowboy in the back

One of the surfing schools

Batucada all night long

Drink up! $6 for the bucket of beers

Moda en la Calle

Street Fashion: Paris, France

VALENCIA






de MADRID

Freedom Avenue

A little tribute to street art.

Entre Dos Aguas

PACO DE LUCIA circa 1976
Some really good Spanish Flamenco Guitar.
Que rico

Roasting Marshmallows

Volcan Pacaya

Location: Antigua, Guatemala

Pacaya is an active complex volcano in Guatemala, which first erupted approximately 23,000 years ago and has erupted at least 23 times since the Spanish conquest of Guatemala. Pacaya rises to an elevation of 2,552 metres (8,373 ft). After being dormant for a century, it erupted violently in 1965 and has been erupting continuously since then. Much of its activity is Strombolian, but occasional Plinian eruptions also occur, sometimes showering the nearby city of Antigua with ash. (From Wikipedia)

I had a bittersweet hike up Volcan Pacaya with a couple hours of sleep and a bad hangover from Mono Loco's 4Q= 50cent drinks all night and dancing at Sin Aventuras all night.  The worst idea possible, getting drunk all night before hiking a "1 hour and 45 minute" hike, while people on horses would harass you and try to convince you to give in and pay for a horse ride the rest of the way up the volcano.  Whispering beside your ear, their prices and telling you that you were tired.  But after all that we finally made it to the top where we roasted marshmallows and watched a clear view of the other surrounding volcanoes and the town.

we made it!!

Volcan Pacaya

100quetzals..80...70...

Eat My Dust

Volcano Surfing @ Volcan Cerro Negro in Leon, Nicaragua

Volcan Cerro Negro

me and my board, hot sweaty and gross after a 40min hike carrying that thing

on top of cerro negro

Volcano Boarding Leader

View from Cerro Negro

Climbing the Ruins

Palenque (Bàak' in Modern Maya) was a Maya city state in southern Mexico that flourished in the 7th century. The Palenque ruins date back to 100 BC to its fall around 800 AD. After its decline it was absorbed into the jungle, which is made up of cedar, mahogany, and sapodilla trees,but has been excavated and restored and is now a famous archaeological site attracting thousands of visitors. It is located near theUsumacinta River in the Mexican state of Chiapas, located about 130 km (81 mi) south of Ciudad del Carmen about 150 m (164 yd) above sea-level. It stays at a humid 26°C (79°F) with roughly 2160 mm (85 in) of rain a year. 


Much of the history of Palenque has been reconstructed from reading the hieroglyphic inscriptions on the many monuments, historians now have a long sequence of the ruling dynasty of Palenque in the 7th century and extensive knowledge of the city-state's rivalry with other states such as Calakmul and Toniná. The most famous ruler of Palenque was Pacal the Great whose tomb has been found and excavated in the Temple of the Inscriptions.


(stole that from Wikipedia)

Yo con Cyndi

Hostel Jungle Palace en El Panchan

Listening to live music and drinking 40s, watching a fire show @ El Panchan