(Update June 2018 – Atalaia, Portugal – After I left Mexico, Wes and I kept in touch and, as travelers often do, we met up again. This time in June 2016, in Chiang Mai, Thailand. We continued our friendship as if no time had passed and had a few more crazy...
It is only a short distance from San Cristobal de las Casas to Puerto Arista on the Pacific coast of Chiapas but these are definitely two different worlds. When my somewhat insane friend Wes Nations and I left San Cristobal it was in the mid-50s with a little bit of...