Season's Greetings

A new year's approaching, hopefully most of you are enjoying your winter holidays right now. István and Ferenc are still there, walking every day to get around the world.

Unfortunately due to the constant lack of resources we have less news about them. But still, more than we've been able to pass on here.

Since we, the background team of volunteers have lives as well, these lives turn more busy sometimes. We hope we'll be able to bring back more frequent posting next year. Until then, we wish you and the WorldWalk boys happy holidays.

Little Hungary in Mexico

Villa Benito Juárez
October 25th, 1:00 PM
North: 18.175089
West: 93.907142

by FERENC IVANICS
There's a small village between La Venta and Magallanes, called Villa Benito Juárez. It has a nice Hungarian ambient. :) If you take a look at the Mexican flag, you see colors resembling the colors of the Hungarian flag. Though the stripes are vertical, not horizontal, they frequently paint the national colors using horizontal stripes. The order of the stripes, top to bottom is green, white, red.


Except in this small village, probably the guy responsible of the job wasn't sure about the order of the colors. Thanks to his mistake we felt at home for a few moments. :)

Bikers

by FERENC IVANICS
We spotted two bikers on October the 23rd, some six miles before La Venta. They were having a break at a cheap diner. We had seen them before passing by, but the speed difference was too much. It was obvious that they weren't locals, so we decided to check on them to see who they were.


When I asked where they were from, one of them answered that from former Yugoslavia, to be more exact, from Slovenia. My birthday is on the 23rd of October, I celebrated it with a Slovenian guy (Istok Markoja). It was nice, we quickly changed to Serbo-Croatian language, but then switched back to English, since his friend was from the USA. Istok was heading for South America, he had departed from New York in March. His friend, JahrunChilamBalam wanted to explore some organic plantations in Ecuador. It was a nice evening, with some beers. Thanks for that and have a nice trip!

Waking in Pools

by FERENC IVANICS
At uninhabited places we often find jungle by the side of the road 180 (which is called here a main road but doesn't look like one). When dusk approaches we get more and more unsettled, it's hard to find a camp spot. It's been raining every day lately, and in quite unpredictable moments. And when it rains it's abundant. That night we were within an inch of being submerged into rainwater.