An Odd Odyssey

This book is about the author's five and a half month journey through Mexico and Central America. It describes the places he visited, people he met, and his experiences through ten different countries during the time that Hurricane Mitch struck the region.

Introduction Sydney

5

(4)

Why go...there?

Japan, Los Angeles, and Baja California

9

(17)

Tijuana and the Giant Tooth

Looking for pre-historic Cochimi rock paintings in the desert Mulege's Viking

Crossing the Sea of Cortez

Mazatlan, Guadalajara, and Mexico City

26

(20)

Guadalajara and the transcendental tequila bar

The `Fight of the Century'

Teotihuacan and the Avenue of the Dead

Robbed twice in 24 hours

Mexico City

46

(26)

Ari, the love-struck would-be guerrilla

Kahlo and Cortes, Trotsky and Huitzilopochtli

A student protest that got out of hand

Taxco and Ixcateopan

72

(8)

A marble marvel

The Eagle King and his guardian

A mysterious melancholy

Oaxaca, San Cristobal and Palenque

80

(25)

Hounded from the air in the ancient citadel

President's house invaded by African killers

The bizarre cult of the Tzotzil Indians

The Canon de Sumidero and the plastic crocodile that wasn't

Exploring ancient Mayan ruins at Palenque and Bonompak

Up the usumacinta River by motorized canoe

Panajachel, Antigua and Guatemala City

105

(36)

Harassed by jungle pizotes in Tikal

The Temple of Maximon

Being speechless and ready to die

Spanish lessons and Guatemalan ghost stories

Experiencing Hurricane Mitch

Drinking, dancing and kite-flying in a Sacatepequez cemetery

Climbing an active volcano

Visiting a macadamia farm

A troubled Guatemalan speaks his mind

Friday the 13th and the madman

Seeing the most powerful woman in the world

Talking with the loneliest man in the world

El Salvador

141

(22)

The perils of drinking with a Salvadoran artist

The strange monument to the motorcyclist

The Joya de Ceren, Pompeii of the Americas

San Salvador's British Club and Lipps

The caves of Corinto

Nicaragua

163

(10)

The footprints of Acahualinca

My liaison with the Corn girl

Boat trip on Lake Nicaragua

Costa Rica

173

(11)

A traditional remedy that worked

Under the spell of a beautiful triguena

A difficult decision taken

Discovering a giant sphere in the Costa Rican jungle

Panama and the Caribbean

184

(40)

Christmas Eve in the Land of Eternal Spring

Feathers fly in a fight to the death

Climbing Panama's highest peak to see the Pacific and Caribbean in one vista

Bocas del Toro and the bat-cave

New Year's Eve in a Caribbean disco

Doctor Kaled, an unlikely millionaire

Visiting Paul Gauguin's house with a Playboy Bunny and Penthouse Pet

Panama

224

(20)

Drama while crossing the Panama Canal

Jar--heads, wide--mouths, beauty contestants and drunken surfers

El Valle's puzzling pre--Columbian petroglyphs

Colon and Coco Solo: dangerous places

Panama and the Caribbean

244

(15)

Death and thievery on Isla Grande

Sailing and camping among friendly Kuna in the San Blas Archipelago

A crewmember excluded

Sarah the spider monkey

Our brush with disaster in a yacht built by a retired bricklayer

Landfall on the South American continent

EPILOGUE Colombia

259

What happened to the others

Which world is real?

Map, photographs and Ernie's letter

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