After the rules, it was time for us to cozy up to each other and learn more about one-an-another. We were told to sit next to someone we don’t know and ask 6 questions. Then, we each stood up and introduced the other person to the bus. The questions include: name, age, location of residence, career/job, favorite alcoholic beverage, and why Mexico. I introduced Jimmy, a young Australian, newly graduated who came to Mexico for something different from Australia.
Aussies were the bulk of the travelers on this tour. In fact, 13 of the 20 of us were from Australia. Aside from Jimmy, there was Stefani and Stephanie, commonly referred to as the Stiffs. Amy and Kristie, best friends who grew up in different cities but remained close and travel the world together. Nick and Jessica, who our staple couple who are traveling the world together for the next 6 months. Bec, who was my roommate for this trip, was just coming off of a 5 week adventure from America. She became my music guru on our trip. I finally had to tell her to stop asking me if I knew songs, because 9 times out of 10 the answer was “no” (I’m not very music savvy)
Then we had Glenn, who roomed with Jimmy, and their new found friendship turned bromance ended up providing us with good stories and many laughs. Finally, there was Rochelle, Aimee, Natalie, and Troy to round out the Australians.
The other travelers including our sole Brit, Darren, who ended up with the most nicknames; Dazzla, D-money, D-train, Chief Mole-Mole, the oracle, etc. Nicola, our only traveler from New Zealand, who had one of the greatest sense of humors I’ve been around!
There was Markus and Nora from Nova Scotia, Canada and the South African brothers, Mark and John. Mark is in the film industry while his brother raises, trains and races pigeons. Talk about different career paths.
Together with Ish and Marco (our bus drive), we made up April’s Contiki Mexico Family.