July 14 to Sep 14 2006
starting in Frankfurt
1)fly to LA (home), for a week, then fly to Mexico City, stay a week, head to Belize or Guatemala, stay in one place for a month, where we could take Spanish classes, I could teach English and my girlfriend could do a nonpaid (or paid of course!) internship at an art museum, doing weekend trips and after the month, travel another week back to Mexico, fly home and stay 4-5 days, and go back to Frankfurt

2)fly direct to Cancun, down through to Panama or Costa Rica, stay for the month somewhere, fly to LA for a week and then back to frankfurt
2a)all of the above but NOT go to LA

3)Fly to LA, go overland through Mexico to Costa Rica/Panama over 6-7 weeks, fly back to Mexico or LA and back to Frankfurt

4)fly Buenos Aires, take 2 months to get to Lima, seeing Macchu Picchu, back to Frankfurt

5)fly to Chile, stay up the coast in one of the happening coastal cities, last two weeks up to Lima and back

6)fly to Caracas, make way through to Lima over two months and fly back from there

You see, I have good problems. I have about 5.000euro earmarked (haven’t earned it all yet, though) for the trip for the both of us. Which would you do, and do you have suggestions? I think the most important thing is speaking Spanish, architecture, safety, occasional beach (though it will be cold), art museums and english teaching possibilities.

thanks!
jason