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Apple Pickin’

The apple tree limbs are sagging with green apples. We have been watching and waiting and testing a few low hanging treats. Today, Randall decided it was time to start picking. We got a couple of baskets of apples in search of the ones with a blush of pink on their sunny-side cheeks. The wasps […]

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Lily versus Granddad

Lily is a Sweetwater Bulldog, now, so let’s just say it is important to know how to dribble. They don’t have soccer round here much less swimming. No tennis nor softball. Your social status depends a lot on your ball handling ability. So we have been practicing a little. Randall and Lily have done some […]

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Trust Fund Traveling

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 […]

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Livingston In A Downpour

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 […]

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Avi showing Isabella the guitar.

Jake’s Sound Healing Friends

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 […]

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 Tied up in the San Marcos, Cowboy decided to nip Gus on the hindquarter. They jostled around until they were free but strayed only a tiny way upstream. spreading out so they didn't have to share nibbles.

Freddy’s Friends Fun This Week

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. […]

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Ketchup with This Catchup

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 […]

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The blue water of Lake Atitlan meets the green volcanic slopes

Guatemala City and Back to Rio Dulce

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 […]

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Lake Atitlan

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 […]

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