Welcome to this weblog by Roy Jones. Here you'll find the diary of a backpacking trip through Latin America, musings on life, living as an expat in the Caribbean, as well as plans for a bicycle tour through Europe and beyond.


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Content for Successful Travel Blogs

What constitutes a good travel blog? How much information should be included? Which topics do people like to read? Do you read for information, enjoyment, curiosity or something else? I have recently started thinking about developing a structure for blog entries, trying to formulate an outline of what posts will be like, partly to work [...]

Solar Powered Cooking

I recently read an entry on Peter Gostelow’s blog regarding a calendar post and the monthly photo. As you can see the photo shows three young boys laden with wood, collected as fuel for the fire on which family meals are prepared.

Final Route

The route at the beginning of the trip through Mexico ….. Then into Central America ….. And finally into South America ….. Back to Latin America Summary  >>

Photography

During the trip to Latin America, I used a Konica Minolta DiMAGE X20, which at 2megapixel is highly inferior in todays market. I think it worked pretty well throughout, until it died in Panama, on the beach at Playa Venao, right after taking some photos of some cows! Below is a small selection of photos [...]