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The longest day of my life

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It lasted for 82 hours, 4 countries, around 9,000 km (~ 6.000 miles) and a lot of stress. It started in Miami where I was once again hanging out at the White House in South Beach. Mr White had left for work and I was just waiting to go to the bus to the airport. So when I booked the flight I was in a different time zone than in Miami that’s why my calendar said the flight was at 5 pm but actually it was at 4 pm which I, luckily, realized on time but then hat to stress a bit but I made it. (yeah) Dropped off my luggage on time, got to the gate on time, took ages to go through security check, where the bloke almost broke my credit card, and finally sat my ass in my seat. Next to me a hot Italian girl. Oh, this was on February 14th, so I thought maybe my Valentine’s Day won’t be that bad after all. The speaker cracks and a woman with a Dutch accent says: “We’re missing a person and until we haven’t found him, we can’t take off.” Yep. This investigation took about one and a half ho

Tulum, Tequila and Tacos

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Let’s start in Guatemala which I left a couple of weeks ago. I took another long bus (9 hours) through Belize to get back to Mexico. I wish I had spent more time in Belize as it looked really beautiful. The 20 min break in Belize City was not really helpful. All in all it looked liked Jamaica, a lot of black people with a funny English. If it weren’t that expensive I would have spent more time there even though I guess driving through mainland Belize was enough for me. It didn’t really seem to offer a lot, not like the really beautiful islands where I didn’t go. Anyhow I got back to Mexico and instantly felt welcomed. It’s that weird sensation you only experience when you’ve been traveling for a long time. I got kicked out of the bus in a city I’ve never been before and yet everything felt familiar. It felt right to be there. I was instantly happy. And didn’t even care that the taxista dickhead charged me 50 pesos more than he had said in the beginning. The city of Chetumal, arou