Madre Chronicles

Prior to leaving on our quest driving from the US through Mexico and into Central America,  we read posts on the internet and listened as our friends and family offered endless warnings: “People ...

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No one could tell us when we would be able to get through. The next couple hours of traveling were intense. We were driving along roads that were filling with water, rock, and mud. We witnessed m...

We pushed Shakira into a snug parking spot in front of Hostel Antigua. We came to find out over the span of our five day stay that this hostel had a lot of rules and its employees watched guests ...

At this point, our journey became consumed with car problems. Upon leaving Malacatán, Shakira seemed to be in her death throes. Navigating Guatemala was much easier than navigating Mexico, howeve...

We had been told the Mexico-Guatemala border was one of the roughest border crossings and for once what we had heard was true...As we entered, a few very casually dressed men raised a metal bar a...

We woke up early... Ixhuatán was a very interesting place geographically, and although I had never seen pictures, nor knew anything about the town I had always wanted to go there, based solely on...

Eli and I got an early start with plans to make it to Mexico's southern border. We left Amanda behind because she chose to take a bus the rest of the way to Managua.