Hotel Real Virginia Quetzaltenango

... back to San Pedro at Lake Atitlan and taking a week of Spanish class. I wasn't sure if I was going to take any more Spanish here, but if I am going to have to be sitting around for a week, I might as well get some good skills out of it. You can get around San Pedro better on crutches because you dont have to climb up many hills and they have little taxi carts that can take you everywhere. and I found a Spanish school that has places to live in the school, which ...

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... am not so sure for hiking and camping. We are so high up that it has maybe gotten to 50 so far with clouds and fog. The rain isnt too far behind either I am afraid. We are thinking if we really want to survive three days in the wilderness like that. If this were the beginning of the trip, yeah, I'd be all about an adventure. We'll just play it by ear in the morning. As I write this there is lightning off in the distance so ...

... and living in Miel y Cafe we have met a lot of young local people. We met a few guys who are part of a local artistic cooperative called 'la tres lunas', and who are a local cooperative of artists who sing, paint and write poetry together. The strange thing is they are constantly talking, practicing and singing in rhyme - so it's pretty testing on the old spanish! We met another guy from LA, who is walking (WALKING!), all the way from LA to Rio. Along the ...

... At least we don´t have to pay for meals or<br>accomodations... and hopefully the magic money truck will be making its<br>way to our pueblita soon. Maria cooked us an amazing lunch of rice,<br>tortillas, and a meat/veggie combo in some sauce that was absurdly<br>good. And Susan is definitely going to have to steal her chile recipe<br>for her future hot-sauce based concept restaurant. <br><br>After a brief respite (and a little bit of a rough period for ...

... every day but the guacamole is my favorite its served on a flat hard shell torte with an incredible sauce on top and it is to die for. She charges 25 cents each. <br><br>Well that&#8217;s it for now I do not plane on doing much right now I want to spend my free time studying, next month I will be doing a lot of traveling and I hoping to be able to commutate at a level higher then grade school.<br><br>For you people in Wisconsin stay warm (ha, ha)

... lady who also takes the time to ask us about school when she is around, although she often has to rest a lot at meal times.<br><br>Has definitely been an experience staying with local people and although we´re going to stay a few more weeks I will look forward to being able to chose when we´ll eat and be able to have some private space. <br><br>Hasta luego,<br><br>B<br><br>PS. If anyone wants to correct the Spanish (or the English for that matter) go ahead!!

... co-operatively run local spanish schools in the area) and get involved with some grass roots volunteers work with local communities. It feels amazing to stop travelling and have a base for a month or so in a community we can really get involved with! It would be interesting to go along with our host to some of the indigineous villages as well, see what life is really like for them. We have two Guatemalan guys staying with is ...

... significantly steeper and a bit more slippery. In Guatemala, it appears, they do not believe in switch-backs. If you want to go down a mountain, you go down a mountain. Straight down. As a result, the path is steep, and also gets a bit more washed-out during the rain. This results in several large drop-offs where, to continue along the path, you need to essentially jump down several feet. (For example, in the return hike, I found that several of these were ...

... pairs (8Q = 1 US dollar), I purchased two sweaters at a much more reasonable price. The first (a rather unattractive but highly functional white wool sweater) cost 3Q (roughly 37.5 cents in US dollars) and the second (a slightly more attractive but also slightly oversized item) cost 5Q (or about 62.5 cents). They also sell everything else you need -- DVDs, fruits, vegetables, scarfs, belts, hats, hammocks, soap, meat, and baby chickens, for ...