Redwood Motel Yorkton

... is an amazing, paradoxical, divided, and changing place. From the ancient Mayan ruins to the largely government perpetrated genocide of the late 1970s and early 1980s, Guatemala seems to have been home to things only reserved for fiction and imagination. Environmentally, the country seems to be as diverse as Canada, but fit into the size of, like, New Brunswick. Guatemala is perhaps most famous for, besides Tikal, it's Mayan ...

... all the contents of my bag? and then I got a lift from a couple natives who already had another hitcher. Well luck was on my side, kinda... They dropped us off at the same spot and one decision saved me. He decided to walk to the gas station to ****, I ******************* behind a building. I made it out onto the road seconds faster and snagged a ride from a dude with room for only one! Woo-wee that was a close, I will always pee outdoors ...

... taking a hike on the wild side, and thank god the knee brace was on or I would have been flat on my face, stepped right in a ditch I couldn't see it because the weeds were so high, and when I stepped I just lurched. And well, if itching from mosquito's isn't bad enough try itching from that and tall weeds and grass brushing against your legs on a hot day. All in all not a bad day, as the saying has gone in the past with the wording changed ...

... budget travelling that is more wide-spread throughout this website. Whatever. A trip is a trip, and to be quite frank, I need the break. I kind of thought this package would be far easier to find and purchase than it was to find tickets to take us to Europe and back. In a way, it was. There wasn't a six month long journey to find just the right ticket ...

Wow, and now December is gone too, just like that. Poof, and it's a brand new year. Happy New Year, Merry Christmas...though not necessarily in that order. Hmm, let's see, where were we in December? Grudgingly, I have to say 'nowhere' again. Not really, anyways. We went to Regina for a bit and to Yorkton a few times, but really - nowhere worth mentioning. And I mean 'worth mentioning' in the kindest ...

... moral of the story - I don't know why I bother. But bother I did, and off to the races we went. Sunday morning between popping medication for my ailing stomach and swallowing large bites of spaghetti with ketchup (isn't that what YOU eat before a big race???) I made some mental notes to myself. I said to myself I said "Self, be at peace with what you will accomplish this morning, self. Don't overdo it. Don't ...

... with my schoolmates. Almost like there are ghosts of that old existence still lurking the walls and hallways of that old building (which was built in the 1900's - old as compared to the 'newness' of some of the other buildings in town). Or what about the sunroom? Kyle and I walked into this room and seriously, it didn't seem to matter if we had seen it all a million times before - everything was just stunningly beautiful to me. The sunlight streaming through ...

The town is hosting their annual Railway Days this weekend. Festivities include a street fair, pancake breakfast, parade, dunk tanks, a street dance, etc etc etc. Tomorrow morning Kyle and I will venture out into the world for the pancake breakfast, then perhaps we'll watch the parade. I'm hoping that this year there will be more than 20 floats. Here's ...

... water. Pfft. But it still hurts today and is dampening my spirits because I had planned on going running tonight. Regretfully, I wasn't the only one who was hurt during the game. We did end up losing by quite a bit but I blame it on the stagnant air in the dugouts and the lack of motivation due to our players getting hurt one by one. But really, I don't care that we lost.

... sun died down and we had gotten all the Vitamin D we could, we walked back up to the store and purchased beads and charms to make anklets. We both made an anklet that reads "Burgis Beach". It cost us less than $3 altogether. Well worth the amount of laughter and good medicine we got out of it. Drove home and let the dogs out for air (it's seriously humid in this house) and now i'm satiated and content. For a few days, anyways.