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When we last left #teamASTRID on the Maya Rally 2012, we were in Palenque after successfully singing with mariachis, ziplining across Cañon del Sumidero and taking part in a unique fishing excursion! What will our road warriors be up to today? Day 8: White Guy Dreadlocks and Mayan Temples! After a quick breakfast of chorizo, [...]
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In the last Maya Rally 2012 post, we just finished up in Oaxaca eating grasshoppers, doing mezcal shots in the middle of the day and wrestling with luchadores, but to finish this rally, we needed to get on the road as quickly as possible. With 1314 km (816 miles) and 3 days left, we needed [...]
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When we last left our intrepid Maya Rally 2012 adventurers, we were in Senguio viewing the Monarch butterfly migration in the Monarch Butterfly Biosphere Reserve. We had over 650 km (403 miles) to get to Oaxaca that night, and we had two options to get there, one was to drive straight through Mexico City (Distrito [...]
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In the last installment we started the Maya Rally 2012 and had a blast racking up points in Guanajuato. As much as we would have loved to stay in this awesome city a little while longer, we knew we had to lay down some miles if we ever hoped to cross the finish line by [...]
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The last two weeks of travel and volunteering were all leading up to the start of the Maya Rally 2012 in Guanajuato. We knew very little about the rally before agreeing to compete and the weeks leading up to the start of the rally didn’t exactly shed any light on the subject. We were left [...]
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When we registered for the Maya Rally 2012, we had the choice of paying upwards of $400.00 in entrance fees or alternatively, sign up to volunteer for a week with the Muskoka Foundation, an organization that pairs overland travelers with projects on their route- all around the world. I first learned of the Muskoka Foundation [...]
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Day 6: Pyramids and Tequila! We hit the road on day six of the Maya Rally 2012 journey looking for pyramids! Not those overdone square or rectangular pyramids, mind you, but ROUND pyramids. Our camp host in Ezatlan told us of Guachimontones an area representative of the Teuchitlan architectural tradition. This pre-Columbian society came to [...]
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Day 3: Los Mochis On day three of the journey to the start of the Maya Rally 2012, we got in touch with a friend of our good buddy Luis to stay in Topolobampo for the evening before moving on further south. We rolled out of our hotel/ campground around 11:00 a.m. after a quick [...]
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Day 1: We left Santa Cruz at zero dark thirty on Tuesday morning and even though we’ve been looking forward to this trip for months, we knew that this was going to be one of the hardest days on the itinerary. THE SLOG. You see, we needed to get to Tucson, AZ from Santa Cruz, [...]
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A couple of weeks ago we broke the news that we entered ourselves into the Maya Rally 2012 and since then, it’s been a whirlwind of activity getting ready for a trip to the Mayan jungles in search of intrigue and adventure. Bryon and I have been burning the midnight oil with route planning, decal [...]
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