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Mon, 7 Aug 2006 | By anita | Views [653]
My feet hurt so badly... Cat's birthday is today, but we celebrated it Saturday with a bunch of her friends in Poaquil, a little city that's 11.5 kilometers from Comalapa. Mateo decides that instead of taking the hour and a half bus ride and going ... Read more >
Tags: Culture
Sun, 16 Jul 2006 | By anita | Views [1708]
As if our chicken bus rides have not been interesting enough, yesterday provided the ultimate of the ultimate of my chicken bus experiences. We, Lucy and Jessica (some ladies from California that I traveled with)and myself, had just spent 6 hours ... Read more >
Tags: Culture
Thu, 6 Jul 2006 | By anita | Views [586]
Today I just got back from a two day trip, hiking up a volcano that also holds the title as the highest point in Central America, Tajumulco! On Wednesday we left at 6am and started our climb around 10. It took us until 4pm to get to the site where ... Read more >
Tags: Adventures
Sun, 2 Jul 2006 | By anita | Views [490]
... We finally arrived in Flores and went onto Tikal, putting our travel time to a slightly less impressive time of 6 1/2 hours. We ended up staying on the campgrounds in hammocks...ADVENTURE #7. Our hammocks were arranged as such that we were under ... Read more >
Tags: On the Road
Sat, 1 Jul 2006 | By anita | Views [563]
It has been quite a busy week for Amelia and I adventurewise and travelwise. On Tuesday the 27th we bid farewell to Chimiyá and caught the 8:00 chicken bus to go to Guatemala City. Chicken buses=old, schoolbus vehicles that fit as many people ... Read more >
Tags: On the Road
Sun, 25 Jun 2006 | By anita | Views [1407]
Just so we stay on our toes at Chimiyá, the goats we have recently purchased have taken to trying to kill themselves on a daily basis. Be it jumping through barb-wired fences to eat the neighbor´s crops, running away from home, or more creativly ... Read more >
Tags: Culture
Tue, 20 Jun 2006 | By anita | Views [930]
One comical story to start out...yesterday Amelia, Kat, and I were
planting trees/talking and a bunch of indigenous peeps were coming to
the park and we ended up talking to one woman in particular who was
interested in what we were doing. We tried ... Read more >
Tags: Culture
Fri, 16 Jun 2006 | By anita | Views [658]
It has been quite an adventurous week here Guatemala! I spent the
first week with family and such, running all around Guatemala City,
going to concerts, and traveling around a tiny bit. Sunday, the 12th,
we went to the beach and had a lot ... Read more >
Tags: Work
Wed, 15 Feb 2006 | By robin | Photo Gallery
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Fri, 23 Dec 2005 | By solbeam | Views [4079]
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12.5, 2.7, 2.0
“Oh my gosh, this one’s so little!” I put the slide rule down and, with two careful fingers, lift the little creature up. His width, as measured exactly to be 2.0 centimeters, is small enough ... Read more >
Tags: Animals
Mon, 7 Nov 2005 | By solbeam | Views [1799]
Sometime in the last few months I picked up a new personal meal-prompted ritual. And it only slightly (and admittedly irrationally) bothers me that onlookers might presume I’m Christian (which I, although a fan of Jesus “the pilgrim,” am not) when I ... Read more >
Tags: Food & eating
Tue, 25 Oct 2005 | By willlou | Views [1069]
Last week we left Antigua to spend a week or so in Honduras. We visited the Mayan ruins at Copan and had planned to head to the coast to stay on the Bay Islands. We had to cancel this trip as Hurricane Wilma brewed up and the coast was put on Hurricane ... Read more >
Tags: On the Road
Wed, 19 Oct 2005 | By solbeam | Views [1252] | Comments [1]
Like a child who has witnessed a tragedy beyond their vocabulary of comprehension, my mouth has been closed in silent surrender of the search for fitting words that don’t exist. For who am I to speak? In every country I travel to, and with every firsthand ... Read more >
Tags: Mountains
Tue, 11 Oct 2005 | By willlou | Views [873]
We have spent the last week in beautiful Antigua which has been little affected by the destruction wrought by Tropical Storm Stan in large parts of Guatemala. The death toll for the country is now over 600, with tens of thousands of homes washed away ... Read more >
Tags: On the Road
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