I am just leaving Mexico after two months here, and on now on my way back to Guatemala, from where I will head further into Central America for the last two months of my trip. In Mexico I spent one month as a tourist heading around Cancun and the Yucatan Peninsular, and then up through the key state capitals of Oaxaca, Puebla and Mexico City.

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Back in January I visited El Salvador to deliver an ENCA donation of US$500 for emergency office expenses to the Permaculture Institute of El Salvador (“IPES”, by its Spanish initials). I dropped the money off at their office in the beautiful colonial town of Suchitito, but then they were kind enough to invite me to spend a day and night on their Demonstration Centre a little further into the countryside.

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OK, so it’s been a very long time since I’ve been able to update my blog – I don’t think I’ve ever been as busy as I found myself in Nicaragua, which I left 2 weeks ago to start travelling Central America.

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Things have been pretty hectic since getting to Nicaragua – there’s a lot going on here, and I feel right in the thick of it living with Edilbertha, the director of the clinic, as she gets herself involved in a different good cause every day.

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Hello from Nicaragua! I got here a month and a half ago on the 19th of November and have been rushed off my feet since then. But now I’ve finally found the time to update my blog and let people know what I’ve been doing.

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Now I’m firmly settled in Nicaragua and not moving from day to day, I finally want to write an article going into more detail about the environmental impacts of travelling the way I have. I’m hoping to see whether the time and effort has made a difference in terms of my carbon footprint – really the most important point of hitch-hiking and travelling by cargo ship.

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