Nobody said this was going to be easy.

It is with a heavy heart that we send you this most recent update...
As this is being written, four of our travelling companions are waiting at the airport to go back to California. I know it´s been a long time since this was last updated so let me go back a little bit.
After we left Oaxaca city we travelled south to reach the ocean again, this time the Pacific. Through a series of coincidences we came to rest in an incredibly small town called San Augustinillo. This town has approximately 2-300 residents and abutts a little cove. The weather is fantastic, the ocean is warm and the surfing is perfect (just ask our new surfer friends). The first place we parked our RV here happened to be the only place it would ever need to be. We pulled up next to an empty summer resort and have had the good fortune to stay there, making use of whatever amenities were available: hammocks, lounge chairs, thatched palapas... We had expected to stay here only a few days but that has turned into almost three weeks, and likely will be slightly over three weeks by the time we leave. (Feel free at this point to curse the inadequacy of the United States Postal Service, we sure are).
About a week ago the owner of the resort came back to make repairs before high tourism season begins again. He is a really great guy and befriended us immediately. We pitched in with the repairs and he's bought both food and coffee for us in exchange for our labor. Ultimately though, we hit a snag.
You all know we've been waiting for money, and it still hasn't come (well, actually it was lost in the mail... again cursing USPS). We have been surviving hand to mouth since we got here, exchanging our extra clothes and jewelry for food and water. The dogs however are allegic to things like corn and poultry so we were still compelled to buy their food. Even with our best efforts their health drastically declined. Ladainian lost 20% of his body weight and Isabelle got an infection from the ticks in the sand. Because Liz is a loving and faithful pet owner, she made the incredibly difficult decision to put her own desires aside and take the dogs back to the States where they can fatten up again and get proper pest control. She and Jahsiah left with the dogs this morning.
So now we are two. Tracey and J (in Mexico Lupita and Jack) will bravely forge onward. We have reached the decision that we will sell Rollando. He was great for four people and two dogs but extremely excessive for just the two of us... and talk about the cost of gas! So, we're backpacking and taking busses the rest of the way, taking time to see all the sights in the Yucatan and beyond. We are still being safe and all, so we ask that you not worry excessively for us. We will be in Costa Rica later rather than sooner, but we will still be there. Probably in time for New Years... anybody want to join us there?
Time is money on the internet here, so we gotta run, but the updates will comtinue. We can still eat even without money because the locals all know us after three weeks and a couple restaurants and the internet cafe have graciously let us open a tab to be repaid whenever we get that money. Love to everyone out there in cyberspace.
Sincerely,
Just the two of us (kinda like that Will Smith song)
Lupita & Jack

Sort of like Berkeley, if Berkeley were in San Bernardino

We are here in Oaxaca, appropriately because it is the hot spot for young activists, vegetarians, and anyone looking for a good time in Southern Mexico. We have left the cloud forests of the North and we are in the middle of a vast expanse of desert that has lasted for most of the last two days of our travels. There was a brief respite last night when we made camp in a hilly region of Oaxaca the state but by the time we made it to the city of the same name the desert crept back slowly until we are smothered by it´s oppressive heat. It isn´t that bad though... at least one of us is still wearing jeans (typical Americans!)
There really isn´t much more to update everyone on as we have merely been slowly meandering our way South through Mexico. We stopped in several cities along the way: Huejutla de Reyes (smelled bad and looked worse), and Molango (quaint mountain town with a lake), and Tamachupan (we had an abandoned adventure park to ourselves for the whole night!) but we are making our way towards the border in earnest. We won´t leave Mexico for a while yet, close as we are to Guatemala, but we have located a few more places we´d like to see before we depart. Next on our list (likely tonight) is a town near Puerto Angel on the Southern Pacific coast. The town has only 700 residents so it is likely that we´re gonna make a big splash once we get there.
We´d like to thank everyone who has sent us help and well wishes, it really goes a long way for us out here... having the times of our lives :)
Much love,
The Indebted Desert Dwellers