The Journey

I'll be starting off in Mexico City in August. I'll be travelling through Mexico, Belize, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica and Panama.
I shall then be flying off to Quito, Ecuador where I'll be spending two weeks in Spanish school (desperately trying to become able to prononce anything with the correct accent). Then comes the South American leg of my trip. It consists of Ecuador, Peru (including the trek to Machu Pichu), Bolivia, Chille, Argentina, Uraguay and finally Brazil. If all goes to plan, I should be pulling up into Brazil in time for the carnival.
(Oh yes and the fifteenth country is ... Spain. In total I'll be spending13 hours in Madrid airport but it will feel like an eternity).

Trip of a lifeline

I have always wanted to trek the inca trail to Machu Pichu and decided to go for it this summer. Whilst looking at the costings I noticed that you could get longer trips than the three week ones I was looking into. Then Steph mentioned overlanding to me. I couldn't put the brochures down. Deciding to take a year off work was easy, the hard part was deciding on the length and destination of this initial journey. It was always going to encompass Peru, Bolivia and Ecuador and at times the jouney was simply Ecuador to Brazil. Then I thought about carring on from Brazil to Venezuala and Colombia. Next I was contemplating flying from Brazil stright into another overland adventure centering around Egypt and Jordan. Finally I have ended up with an intinery I am really excited about. I'm still going to do the trip around Eqypt and Jordan but perhaps I'll wait until next year.