Buenos dias de Guatemala! Ben is with me now, and we finished up an awesome week of traveling with my mother, and of course, the adventures keep on coming ( Read more... )

i´m sitting a computadora de hotel backpackers, pronounced ohtel bahkpahkairs, on the rio dulce, an area about an hour away from the ocean. considered one of the safest ports on the atlantic side of central america, rio dulce is home to a lot of old expatriates, many of whom come to hotel backpackers in the evening for karaoke, listening to this ( Read more... )

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I am settling into the slow life in Guatemala. But not without some observations, of course ( Read more... )

I have arrived in San Antonio Aguas Calientes, a town outside of the tourism capitol of Guatemala, Antigua. The second leg of my trip is now on it´s way, and I am living for the next month with a comodrona (midwife) and her family. So...time for some reflections ( Read more... )

I´ve now been in Guatemala for over a week and seen and done a whole bunch. Here are some highlights ( Read more... )

I have arrived in Guatemala. I got a ride from Sofia at 530am to the Boston airport, and arrived in Guatemala City at 100. I took a taxi to a bus station, and rode a ¨1st class¨ but that had a lot of commuters on it to Xela. It was a four hour ride, and I arrived around 7pm. Then I took a taxi in Xela to a cafe where I met Eddy, the very nice ( Read more... )

for various reasons, basically laziness, i haven't been sending email updates, and now it is my last morning in japan. so what better way for me to spend my time than to send you all an email? haha. oh yes. here we go again ( Read more... )

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Yesterday Jeff, Andrea, and I had our first full day together. We were going to rent bicycles but then the rental place had run out. whoops. Instead we went to Odaiba, the island of the future, and walked around for awhile. We went to this place called Muscle Park which produces the Muscle Musical which I guess is some sort of circusesque ( Read more... )