We aren’t doing much this week. We have a pretty good list of stuff that has to be done before we leave but most of the items really should be done a day or two before we leave. So this week, we are catching up on Lily’s school, reading and talking about what to do […]
We said goodbye to Tuk and Henry Thursday night. They leave on Saturday, Tuk back to Thailand and Henry to Australia. We met up at Sundogs for a goodbye dinner with them and Shirley and Neal. After dinner, we dinghied Tuk and Henry back to ParPar and Lily gave Tuk one of those clinging, I-hate-to-say-Goodbye […]
We have been feeling quite healthy. We are even getting past the recurring desparate-dash-to-the-bathroom episodes. So when Jake meet the sound healers in Flores, we were interested in how the sound healing works, what it was good for but we didn’t feel any compelling reason to attend a session. The Sound Healers were living in […]
We got to spend two days hanging out with Pam. On Wednesday, we helped with her mobile animal clinic. She picked us up from the marina and we went to a small town south of here called Buenos Aires. We had free worming medicine which Pam administers to cats and dogs brought to her table. […]
OK this is my last “catching up” post from last week’s travels. What we really needed after all that busy traveling back and forth was something relaxing. We decided to wrap up the Great Inland Travel excursion with a day trip from Rio Dulce to Agua Caliente. Agua Caliente is a hot springs waterfall an […]
After so many bus trials, we opted for a private shuttle from Lake Atitlan back to Guatemala City. Coming in by Chicken Bus, we had been so focused on the tranquil lakeview below us that we completely missed the waterfall tumbling down the side of the volcano on the inside of the narrow road. On […]
Just when you think I have run out of bus stories… Strolling in the Antigua outdoor market, we notice the 10 – 15 Chicken buses parked in the back lot. A chicken bus is an old American school bus reborn as a brightly painted Guatemalan public transportation bus. Many have gleaming chrome detailing and fancy […]
I have mentioned that our little excursion involved a lot of buses. On our way to Antigua, we took one of the Litegua especial buses which means assigned seats, air conditioning and a bathroom in the back. We now call this “luxury travel” without batting an eye. We settled in for the 5-6 hour trip […]
We staggered back to the boat last night lugging backpacks crammed with dirty clothes and cameras full of Guatemalan scenery. We had a fast-paced, wide ranging trip and, despite being “bus hostages” for hours at a time, we didn’t miss a meal and only suffered through one bus breakdown (mom and dad – bus hostages […]