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The Art of Ham-Napping 2009-01-15 18:02:40 Leaving Guatemala wasn’t too difficult. It took about 20 minutes to cancel our car permit, which is relatively fast considering some people we met at the border had been waiting for 3 days. Crazy, what a foreign passport can do for you.
Entering El Salvador was pretty painless as well apart from the two hour wait. [...] Read more:Napping
Joyful Find: Organic Cotton Bag by Lento 2009-01-09 13:00:06 One of the reason for Joyful Finds is to try and discover items different from the typical tourist paraphernalia…really one can only buy so many beaded necklaces. While in San Marcos I noticed some scarves made by a company called Lento
, I admired them but decided not to buy one. Then, in Antigua, [...] Read more:Organic
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Three things worth doing in Antigua Guatemala 2009-01-08 14:13:22 After 5 weeks of serious Spanish immersion in Xela, Guatemala
we headed south to the colonial city of Antigua. Excited to be on the move again we packed up Marlin, said goodbye to our lovely host family (there were even a few tears) and set out.
Antigua was just what our Spanish laden minds needed. We [...] Read more:Three
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New Year’s and Latino Heat 2009-01-03 16:47:23 We bought these babies to ring in the new year Latin American style, wearing red undies on New Year
’s Eve is thought to bring good fortune in love and romance.
Ropa interior rojo were in high demand and a little hard to find but we managed to track some down in a crowded clothing market [...] Read more:Latino
Lago Atitlan: San Pedro and San Marcos 2008-12-24 15:39:33 Needing a break from 4 weeks of Spanish immersion we decided to get out of Xela for a weekend. Seeing Lago Atitlan seemed like the way to go and, for once, we traveled without Marlin. We caught the direct chicken bus to San Pedro
from the bus station at 2pm though there are [...] Read more:Marcos
Tint my ride… 2008-12-20 09:46:28 Driving in Central America seems to have more to do with adrenaline and divine intervention than it does with other mundanities like being able to see where your going or who’s going to run into you.
If you own a car here tinting your windows is pretty much obligatory—in fact it’s so standard there’s a verb [...]
All I want for Christmas… 2008-12-17 14:45:21 The holiday season has finally taken hold of me and I have to admit I have been thinking about Christmas
at home, snow and the Boney M Christmas album (nothing feels more festive than disco Christmas songs).
Finding useful and cool gifts for people who love to travel can be a difficult task but, lucky for [...]
Xela’s Superchivos 2008-12-15 18:55:11 Xela happens to be home to the craziest soccer fans in all of Guatemala, or so they say. Keen to check out a soccer game in Central America we attended two games in the last few weeks and enjoyed them immensely.
The best part was sitting in the La Curva Diabla (The Devil’s Curve)–where the [...]
New Zealand Butter in Guatemala! 2008-12-09 18:25:01 Ahh… the taste of home, it’s been a few years. No doubt there’s probably some completely justified North American trade agreements protecting their dairy industry, but when it comes to the fat of the land I’m obliged to get my own flag out.
I was extolling the virtues of butter before it was unfashionable and a [...] Read more:Guatemala
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Thanksgiving, San Andres Xecul and the Infamous Chicken Bus 2008-12-07 15:56:31 When we are not in class filling our brains with Spanish we have been happily hanging out with the students at ICA. There is a broad range of students from all over the world and it is a treat to get to meet all these really great people.
On American Thanksgiving
one of the students [...] Read more:Chicken
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