Celebrate Cinco de Mayo With Photography and Travel Storytelling From Mexico
While I’m celebrating Cinco de Mayo in San Francisco this year, I had the pleasure of actually being in Mexico on May 5, 2007.
Unfortunately, it came at the tail end of an epic journey to get there and instead of celebrating in the streets, I promptly checked into an air conditioned hotel room and passed out for the night. So to celebrate this festive day four years later, I present some of my favorite photos from my backpacking adventure through Mexico.
What follows is an excerpt from Hot Times in Mexico: Part 1, as written during my three month journey from Nicaragua to the United States of America by bus.
After our annoying transportation to Palenque, Carrie and I, along with Andrew and Lucie who had also traveled with us, checked into the first hotel we could find with AC. The plan was to relax for a while then go out and party, as we had arrived in Mexico on Cinco de Mayo and figured there would be parties everywhere.
Well, I guess we got a little too comfy in our AC (or we set our alarm for 7am instead of 7pm…you choose), as Carrie and I took a nap and woke up at 3am. Well, determined to still make the best of it we wandered around looking for parties and, of course, found nothing. We learned the next day that Andrew and Lucie had gone out and found nothing, so we really didn’t miss anything. Big bummer considering how excited we were to be in Mexico for Cinco de Mayo.
There’s STILL lots more photography from my backpacking adventure through Central America at my Mexico Photography Gallery
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