Unknown void

As most of you readers know, two weeks of my upcoming summer will be spent pretty far from here... I am quite bad at keeping things for me which I am excited about, so this was definitely one of these things. ;) On my list of countries to visit, Mexico was certainly ranked fairly high and when my sister came with the idea of going there, I felt enthusiastic immediately. She suggested it on the phone while I was walking around in Stockholm, just after my trip to Turku. Definitely the best moment to start making new plans to forget about the monotony of having to go back to work the next days. ;)

A while ago Pablo introduced me to the fun that is Google maps. Not only for finding your own house on it, but also for finding places which you are going to see! I even wanted to use it to get an idea on which roads we would be following and how far apart the different places were that we would visit, but apparently Mexico is sill a remote, empty void in Google's world...


So for planning the trip we will have to rely on the Mexican bus drivers alone it seems... Looking at the size of the country it now appears that we will only see a small part of it, though it is the most touristic part. We decided not to plan everything ahead, just because we don't know which places we will like and which places we can't wait to get away from. :P Better informed friends have already told me that finding hostels is a piece of cake over there, so I think it should turn out ok. We've never been to such an unknown place to us and that also increases the excitement I have about flying over there this July. On below map our semi-planned route can be seen, starting in the Caribbean beach resort Cancun and ending in Mexico city, ranked third in the list of largest populated cities in the world (behind Tokyo and Seoul). I should start working on my caramba-shouts. :P