During the Grand Canyon and Arches visits, Lily kept reminding us that the goal, the reason, the driving force of the road trip was one thing: getting to see Jake and Kelsey. She was unpersuaded that we might regret speeding past such marvels as the Grand Canyon. We agreed after seeing Arches that the “Rush […]
We headed to Moab on Monday. On the way, Randall says, “Is it Mo-ab (long A) or Mo-ahb (short A).” “I am not sure” was my reply but by my internal voice was saying “Mo-ahb?? No way. Where does he get these ideas?” I don’t know why I am so certain of my hunch. I […]
We had a great month-long visit with family in Oklahoma. However, we really wanted to get started on our Pacific Northwest Road Trip to see Jake and Kelsey. We spent part of the time back home looking at RVs and finally settled on a 21-foot Coachmen StarFlyte Camper Van. It is the perfect size – […]
We had a fun dinner with Scott, Tracy, Will and Molly at MonoLoco last night to celebrate Molly’s sixth birthday. They come up to Antigua occasionally to escape the Rio heat and the unrelenting demands of managing Nana Juana. We spent hours talking about life in the Rio and life back home – theirs’ in […]
We went for coffee this morning and I grabbed a copy of the local newspaper. There is an ongoing investigation into political corruption in Guatemala. There is extensive news coverage and local marches demanding reform. We caught a bit of a political march this weekend here in Antigua although, unfortunately, our Spanish is not good […]
We awoke this morning to the cool Antigua air streaming into the open windows. We got a room at the Posada Juma Ocag for all five nights here. Our pretty wood windows have metal security bars and also look out onto the hotel’s small private courtyard so there are no worries about uninvited guests creeping […]
We went to Fronteres yesterday to purchase bus tickets for Friday’s day-long trip to Antigua. Getting into town is a 20 – 30 minute walk from Ram – across the bridge over Rio Dulce and down into the ongoing commerce melee that sits at the bottom of the other side. At the top of the […]
Well, we made it out of the water yesterday. It took awhile because we fell for that “we have a working pump-out station” story. We sat for three hours at the pump out station while five guys tried to get the pump-out pumping. A sixth guy was finally called for. He could not figure out […]
Friday, we heard rumors of a Lily look-alike on a boat at Ram Marina. We decided to investigate. Sure enough, there was a smiley blond, just-turned-eleven, girl on the sailboat Sunny Rays. We made friends, got invited for birthday cake and left minus our little smiley blonde who ended up staying on Sunny Rays for […]
A few days ago, Lily came walking up with one of these. We knew that cashews grew around here but we had not yet seen one. The nut, actually a seed, grows at the bottom of a fleshy fruit called a cashew apple. The meat pulp is used to make a sweet drink. However, you […]