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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Making a Soda Can Stove

A few weeks back I had a few old cans lying around, so I made an attempt at a soda can stove, in truth only to see how it would work. For anyone not sure what a soda can stove is, Wikipedia give a good definition… A beverage-can stove (or pop-can stove) is a homemade, [...]

Tikal: All Ruined Out

Day 62 – Sunday 20th November 2005 4am came around much too soon! That was the time my bus picked me up and drove me (on the bumpiest road ever) to the Mayan ruins of Tikal. As the bus jerked around violently due to craters in the road, I was unable to get any decent [...]

Creel: Moving to Chihuahua

Day 19 – Saturday 8th October 2005 After another quality breakfast, Rob & I said goodbye to the Casa Margarita and the three cute German girls who had stayed the previous night and were taking the same trip we had taken the day before. Talk about bad timing. We bought tickets for the bus to [...]