Sorry for the Group Email

It wasn’t all language schools and driving, you know. Mexico’s beautiful, and these are my favourite shots of about two months in the country. Click here for the slideshow goodness.

After more than six weeks in Mexico - a fabulous country to which you should immediately buy airline tickets - we were headed south and east on the final leg of our trip. Ahead of us, Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua and Costa Rica, but first, the painful necessities of insurance and border preparation. What is there to do in a dusty Mexican border town? Click here to find out.

Out of Mexico, into Oaxaca. Once again, we get “hilariously” lost and test out our mediocre Spanish on underserving locals. Also: the best language school in Mexico, the most welcoming B&B, and what do tarantulas like to do when it’s cold? Get sociable with people, of course. Click here to real all.

The world’s largest, and some would say, most dangerous city on Earth is in Mexico. We visited and mostly were at risk from dying of hypothermia, because what no-one tells you is that it gets pretty nippy in the winter. Click here to see what you should do if you ever get there, and to read an account of what will happen if you’re fool enough to drive there.

Bit of a break there, eh? Anyway, if you’re driving from the US into Mexico, this is what you need to know about the potentially-tricky border crossing. Also, the best hotel in Acapulco, a very weird Christmas, and the reason that pleasant holidays make for terrible travel writing. Not that there’s any in here.

A day peering down things might not sound great, but when it’s the Hoover Dam and the Grand Canyon you’ll make allowances. Click here to find out where to go, where to stay, and whether you can camp there in December. HINT: you can’t. Not without freezing.

Fancy seeing some boobies and losing some/a lot of money? Visit Vegas and you can accomplish these things, often at the same time and without leaving your over-oxygenated hotel room. Also: this may be the only city in the world where you’ll be offered money in return for wanking. Click here to find out how.

Settled by Mormons, populated by rocks. I always assumed Utah would be more boring than Nebraska, but I couldn’t have been more wrong. Click here to see why the Mormon state should be your next holiday.

Oh, hey. What’s the best thing to do to a three-day old car? That’s right, bang it into something, making sure to leave lots of expensive-looking damage. Click here to find out why we spent quite a lot of our time in Colorado trawling around junk yards.

It’s the dullest title of a blog post ever, but still, someone has to document driving across Iowa. On the way, snow, more snow, and the World’s Biggest Truckstop. Apparently people like pulling over at truckstops because of the food. Click here to find out if it’s true.