Off to Belize
After a week in the jungle of Rio Dulce, I am off in just a couple of hours for a 6 day sailing trip to Belize. Belize is just above Guatemala and apparently at one time was all one country. No computer, no internet and heavens knows what else I am in for. [...]

Too Many Women Are Dying
One night while having dinner in San Marcos, I noticed an older Caucasian woman with a young Guatemalan child. Nosy me was trying to figure out the relationship, as there didn´t seem to be a mother present and this woman was either babysitting or a guardian. Finally, I just asked and wow – [...]

How to get what you want
It seems like a lifetime ago that I was sitting in my place on Lake Atitlan making arrangements for Brenda and Adrian´s trip to Guatemala in February. Now they´re gone and I´m wrapping up the last couple of weeks in Central America. One of the places I reserved was on the Rio Dulce (literally Sweet [...]

14 Cockroaches and a hot waterfall
Life in the Rio Dulce is another world. It´s hard to believe that it´s the same country as Lake Atitlan and Antigua. It reminds me alot of when I lived on the coast in Ecuador. It´s probably all the bugs that has me reminiscing the most. On Saturday Brenda, Adrian and [...]

Tikal - A Lost World
Tikal, the world of the Mayans was our destination on Wednesday afternoon. A 45 minute road trip from Antigua to Guatemala City was followed by a 70 minute flight to Flores in the jungle. After the worst landing of our small 48 seater plane, we were shocked to be hit with cold winds [...]

The magic of Antigua
Another amazing day yesterday in Antigua. After a leisurely breakfast at our beautiful B&B, we headed through parts of the city we hadn´t yet discovered. We hit the market – the biggest market any of us have ever seen in our travels. It was like a maze and once we got into [...]

Ziplining, teacher´s protests and Antigua
Saturday, Brenda, Adrian and I went ziplining just outside of Panajachel. They had never been before and it was a great time. The weather was perfect and we did 8 fabulous ziplines across the jungle. We fed bananas to the monkeys and a small racoon-looking creature that is apparently endangered in Central [...]

Hot springs and big vegetables!
There´s nothing like a big beautiful pool filled with sulphur-rich mineral waters that are just the right temperature. Yesterday we left by 8:00 and drove about two hours to Las Fuentes de Georgina. The last 30 minutes of the drive was through beautiful agricultural fields that were absolutely stunning. We all marveled [...]

Feeding 420 children every day!
This morning Brenda, Adrian and I were on a boat by 8:00 heading to the nearby village of Santa Cruz. We were met by two amazing women who run Amigos de Santa Cruz, a foundation they have created to help out the local people with health initiatives, education, and a whole lot more! Now 14 [...]

An entrepreneurial spirit at 9
It´s been quite the busy week. We went to Panajachel on Thursday and Brenda and Adrian were in awe at how different it was from the other two towns they had seen. Yesterday I worked with a couple of clients and in the afternoon we both had massage appointments. Today we headed [...]