The trip's participants were Honors Coordinator James May, fellow veterans of the Mexican highways Professors Hank Webster and John Farr (with John's wife Cathy Farr), and the sixteen honors students:  Jennifer Bowes, Megan Cash, Eugene Chang, Christopher Churchill, Joshua Hayward, Travis Hockenberry, Brent Johnson, Ashley Marshall, Alyssa May, Shawn Miller, Erika Olson, Benjamin Page, Jim Pahel, Corey Pichler, Firas Shaikh, and Derek Thomas.  The students were traditional-aged freshmen and sophomores, aside from two who waited two years after high school to enroll in college; none of the 16 had traveled previously in Mexico; and engineering was the most common major field among them.  They were a group of American youths relatively unworldly and unaware of socio-economic or environmental problems, for whom the trip was a good initiation into the diversity of human life, past and present.

The travelogue, broken down by days, was written by Dr. Jim May.  For each day of the trip there is a narrative.  Following the narrative will be a link to pictures for that day.  After viewing pictures, hit the "back" key and you will return to the narrative that you had just read.  Then click on the link to take you to the next day.