Home on the rez

Trip Start Nov 29, 2005
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Trip End Jan 22, 2006


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Sunday, December 11, 2005

Sorry I havn't wrote for a while, we home stayed with a kekchi mayan family and they didn't have internet. They figure they will try and get running water and a bathroom first. Anyway I digress. We left placencia by boat then caught the bus after Fermin the bartender was done work. Still no chickens. We arrived at the side of the road in the middle of nowhere (about an hour north of Punta Gorda. Where fermins dad picked us up and in true style we hopped in the back of toyota pickup and rode the 15 minutes to there house. The house was clean and fairly new brick. They only had 2 beds though so darby and connie had to sleep in hammocks, which they have in the " dining room" all the time. Darby and myself agree thats freakin awsome. We arrived and the lady dolores had supper cooking. She uses one of those old school mayan stoves. Pictures. Whe had boiled eggs, some spinach type plant, fresh hand made tortillas and jippa jappa. Jippa jappa is a triple threat not only did it have a cool name, it tastes good and if you don't cook it you can weave it into a basket Dead people was here
Dead people was here
 . I think its even more usefull than I am. Then it was time to find the facilities. The out house stunk more than any I have encountered and there was a lot of bugs and no light. I went #1 in there the first night and after that I used the lawn. First time ever I went almost 3 days without a #2 without major problems. You all will be happy to know that that is now all straightend out. The funny thing about here is its so hot that to get a breeze in the house there are no windows, just shutter type things. Works great for a breeze however keeping bugs and spiders out not so good. Saw one of the biggest wild spiders ever on the floor. Then we saw a tarantula on the lawn one day which was bigger, slower but bigger. Anyway day two we went and saw 2 different sets of mayan ruins. Labbanntun and nim li punit. Pretty cool. I like that stuff. They need to fix up a little more stuff though. They need more money they say. This lady feeds us so much, a lotta refried beans. Oh ya the girls weaved baskets in the morning before the ruins. Connie bought some crappy necklace for 10 U.S. cause she felt sorry for the lady, something about kids in school. Anyway connie couldn't sleep in the hammock so I volunteered. Slept there for the rest of the stay. The next morning the village had a craft sale in the dining room/hammock room for us. Oh ya I forgot about the chickens and indian dogs. The dogs bark pretty much all night. Then the damn roosters start at about 5 in the morning. Remember no windows. There is no shower here just a shack with a stone floor where you take a bucket and ladel in and do your thing We is learnin
We is learnin
 . Jodies the only one who used it. Brenda hates this place, but she hated the embassy hotel and it had bathrooms and no spiders. We taught the village children that her name was white devil. Oh yah kids every where the people we stayed with had 7. We have now unleashed the awsome fury of "go fish" on the children of the Kekchi. They cheat at cards more than my grandmas. Anyway after the craft sale we went to the blue creek park. We walked in on a jungle trail with a guide. Who showed us all manner of deadly and vicious plants. One that gives you blisters others that just stab you. We fed some machako fish. Then walked up past some little falls to a giant cave. It goes right through the mountain. The guide, darby, dirk, and myself swam up the cave about 3-400 yards to a water fall inside the mountain. We had flash lights strapped to our heads. It was very very cool. Then the girls (other than jody didn't want to swim in the caves so we headed back out and swam in the pool below the water fall and the water fall. Darby is a little more cautious around water ever since the dam incident. We finished smimming then walked back out. Took er easy that night and then got up early the next morning to catch the bus, but thats another story.
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