Highs & Lows of Solo Travel: Halloween In Merida & Dealing With Unexpected Injuries 🇲🇽

[@WilliamsOWilliams]

Jeez, I'm glad you're alright. I hope you enjoy the culture and festivities of Mexico. God bless you!!!

[@wanderbeard]

All good now, was lucky in the end. Mexico has been incredible otherwise! Thanks for watching! ✌️

[@Sherlynn-u7k]

Wow, so much too see, respect for those lost🙏😮

[@wanderbeard]

It was a really impressive experience, seeing all the tributes to family members who'd passed.

[@Sherlynn-u7k]

@wanderbeard 🙏🥰

[@annaramirez9738]

Buenos dias saludos desde San Antonio TX 🌟👌💯🇲🇽. Dios le bendiga siempre 🙌. Merry Christmas 👌🎇🎄🎇🎄🎇🎄🎇🎄 happy holidays 🎉🎺🎉🎺. Feliz navidad...

[@wanderbeard]

Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays to you and your family! 🎄❄️🎅

[@Matsterious]

This reminds me rhat all the cities ive been to in mexico has holes randomly. Like missing man hole covers and rhings like that. Glad you survived that fall.

[@wanderbeard]

I've seen the same in other countries too. It was just a bad combination of events and being tired and hungry. Was lucky to land where I did. Despite it being bad, it could have been far worse just slightly higher or lower. ✌️

[@JoeDaye-g6k]

Was great to hear you rested up fully, infection is nothing to fool with,wise thinking, now you can continue on and we can follow, Happy Trails.

[@wanderbeard]

I had good help making sure things were progressing properly too ;)

[@no_soy_rubio]

'Like ground hamburger' 😅 sounds grim. Did anyone help you up? Haha love that your mum insisted on seeing photos of the knee 😂 hopefully that's the last of the bad luck 🤞

[@wanderbeard]

It was pretty gnarly for a week or so. Cops came over and looked at me like I'd been shot, but otherwise no, I got up and hobbled away on my own. They probably thought I was a drunk gringo. Lol

[@yomerito3320]

Sorry to hear what happened to you, I hope you’re ok by now, but yeah things happen when traveling but hey that’s part of the memories we’re gonna tell in some years.

[@wanderbeard]

Yeah, all good by now, but it was a pretty miserable few days. Definitely a memory (and probably a small scar) to remember. Who needs tattoos, when you can collect scars instead? 😂✌️

[@yomerito3320]

@ I know right? In one of my first travels when I was like 8 yo, we went to Montebello lake in Chiapas and I ran directly to the water, didn’t notice the mud in the shore so I started sinking 😅 my father took me out when I was already half inside the mud, I was so scared!! But that only encouraged me to keep traveling ☺️

[@wanderbeard]

Agreed, all this does is reinforce my desire to keep going. Old me, the one who sat in front of a desk every day, would have given up long ago, and just say "Oh well, I tried".

[@yomerito3320]

Merida’s Cathedral is the first cathedral built in America continental (first one in all continent is in Dominican Republic), too bad it was closed.

[@wanderbeard]

I would have had plenty of time to check it out, if it wasn't for my knee. It's ok though, not every stop ends up being magical and amazing :) Sometimes, you end up staring at the ceiling for a week hahaha

[@PonchoANS7]

I'm sorry about your accident. Infrastructure here is honestly pretty terrible. It doesn't matter what part of the country you are in, there are gonna be things like the one you stepped in. I messed up my knee once by stepping into a hole in the sidewalk, forcing me to land on my left knee with all of my weight.

[@wanderbeard]

I'm usually pretty aware, and careful, but the combination of a dark street, me being tired and hungry, and a long day of traveling, just a bad combination. I've been pretty fortunate otherwise and thankfully, am pretty much fully recovered now. Hope your knee recovered ok as well! ✌️

[@PonchoANS7]

@@wanderbeard Sort of. It still pops and cracks a lot.

[@stephanedorion2273]

wow wow wow

[@wanderbeard]

Was pretty lucky all things considered! Better to be lucky than rich I guess. 🤷‍♂️

[@brycemcneil4404]

Giving hugs, man, glad nothing was infected (I pretty much skipped to that part haha). Not sure where you're roaming on this day of 12/18 but I'm sure it's interesting to be there in this midst of Canadian political chaos!

[@wanderbeard]

Yeah, I am fully aware of how lucky I am, could have been so much worse. The chaos everywhere seems to be getting worse, trying to just enjoy my time and places. ✌️

[@LuisPerez-ob3ow]

Good luck with your traveling videos. Are you from Canada?

[@wanderbeard]

Yes I'm from Canada. Been traveling through the US and then Mexico now since the summer. ✌️

[@LuisPerez-ob3ow]

@@wanderbeard Mexico is a very good place to start your traveling around the world

[@wanderbeard]

Mexico has been AMAZING over the months I've been here. Having now traveled through two dozen different places, it's such a wonderful country to explore! Amazing people too!✌️

[@Sherlynn-u7k]

😮ouch

[@wanderbeard]

That's putting it mildly. I think I'll have some scar tissue there for the rest of my life. Glad I didn't break anything though.

[@Sherlynn-u7k]

@@wanderbeard that's awful, a souvenir you didn't want..

[@wanderbeard]

@@Sherlynn-u7k Yes, but I'll wear it like a battle scar from my adventures :)

[@maismaisum]

Subject: Possible Imense Viracocha. Hello. Please forgive my bad english. I'm a Brazilian man and can't remember my last english class. Would you have a look and tell me what you think please? Imense object. Here in Brazil called Torre de Pedra(i would translate to Stone Tower). This youtube video is not mine. The title of the vídeo is: SO com DRONE pra DESCOBRIR isso (only with drone to find that). Two time references: 1- at 5min mark Get closer and goes around. 2- at 10min 10s. Goes up. Red arrow to the face!(?) To me looks like a (extraordinary/imense) Viracocha. Thank you.

[@wanderbeard]

I'm not sure what this has to do with my video? There's a few videos with that title.

[@maismaisum]

@@wanderbeardThank you.

[@NJames612]

For that people that thinks Mexico is dangerous, yes is very dangerous, alot dangerous holes.🤣

[@wanderbeard]

The most dangerous thing about Mexico has been the potholes, without a doubt. 😂

[@yishay6194]

Its pronounced meeeerida not meriiiiida

[@wanderbeard]

Interesting, when I asked locals, they said Meh-reeeee-dah

[@no_soy_rubio]

In Spanish language, if you see an accent over a letter it usually means that is the letter that has the emphasis in pronunciation. For example: Cádiz, pronounced CAH-deez México, MAY-hee-ko León, Lay-ON Bogotá, Bo-go-TA Mérida, MAY-ree-da, etc

[@EduReynoso-v6h]

Como Méxicano, le recomiendo hacer sus videos en español, como Méxicano otras perspectivas no agradan

[@wanderbeard]

El 90% de mi audiencia habla inglés y yo tampoco lo hablo con fluidez. Hay subtítulos en español para cada video que se pueden habilitar. ------ 90% of my audience is English speaking, and I'm not fluent either. There are Spanish subtitles for each video which can be enabled.