Biltmore Express Guatemala Guatemala City

... and wisdom (haha), but mostly to hold his hand.
(This kid can´t watch Scream by himself, for crying out loud.) Or, it
could also be the fact that all our other friends are being responsible
and employed or some jazz like that. But, all in all, we think it´s
gonna be a mutually beneficial and fun as hell partnership and we are
totes stoked for the adventures to begin.


Today has actually gone pretty smoothly. Well, besides the fact
that Susan almost ...

We arrive in Antigua four hours later. It was a long four hours. We did manage to get a little sleep and some of the roads were under construction. But for the most part the roads were better than those in Connecticut. When not in construction, they were in good condition.

We arrive in a huge bus depot. There must have been over 100 buses. These drivers must really like their rids because some were pimped out: decals on the ...

... yoga and psychic readings and tarot. It´s not that that isn´t neat, it´s just not what we were looking for. We head back to the ferry area and start chatting with a local boy. We offers to take us where the locals go. We start following him along a boardwalk-path along the water. So at this point we are either going to be killed, going to a really lame place, going to a really ...

... s la messe on visite 7 églises dans toute la ville. Facile, la ville en est remplie. La plupart sont en ruines à cause d'un grand tremblement de terre en 1773. Avant ça, la ville s'appelait Santiago de los Caballeros de Guatemala et était la capitale du pays. Après le tremblement, la décision a été prise de déplacer la capitale à l'endroit où est maintenant Guatemala City puis la ville a été renommée Antigua Guatemala (Antique Guatemala).

... do some of the cooking. The first week I was here, trying to strike up a conversation, I asked her if she went to school and the like, seeing as how she was at the house most days. Turns out she's from a small town near Antigua (Santa Catarina) and her family either doesn't have the cash to send her to school or doesn't value education for her enough (very possibly either). Importantly, she's 19. It's unclear what grade she actually would be ...

... I was feeling trepidation about these bookings, which was not helped when I saw how professional the sign outside Hanse´s tour office looked: So yesterday we went on another volcano trek, which like the last one started at the ungodly hour of 4.30 am. We thought that it would just be Tom and myself, which was good, as we needed to be quick to make it back for our trip to the hot springs in the afternoon. But Hanse had met ...

... again, especially in a country so beautiful and close to my heart. Even from the beginning, my spanish has held up quite well and I even surpised myself some of the conversations I was able to have with other travellers and people I have met. Since, I have moved into the home of a lovely guatemalan lady named Silvia. Not only is she the most fabulous cook, sitting down at meals with her is another spanish lesson in itself. She´s fantastic to practise new ...