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.
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.
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.
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.
We visit Australia’s premier wine-producing region and got quite trollied, thanks very much. Click here to see (hic) how we got on.
The truly interesting part of our trip has come to an end, and we’re on a kind of backpacker hiatus in Sydney. Still, SFTGE has had its fair share of readers. Click here to find out how you arrived.
Five months, 15,000 miles, and over 6,000 photos. One fake driving license and a multitude of cockroaches. Countless trains, buses and boats. We must have learned something. Click here to find out what.
We arrive in one of Asia’s biggest and most populated cities. Mostly we choked on the smog, but click here to see why Asia’s largest shopping mall is worth a visit, and how to fly with the parakeets.
The morning after we arrived in Langkawi, my camera, having sulkily refused to respond all night after getting thoroughly drenched, showed a flicker of life. I un-expectantly flicked it on and it rewarded me by coming to life. I hesitantly tried a shot. It clicked away and produced a perfect image. This was little short [...]
