howdy true believers! in this installment of the fantastical, unbelievable, exhilarating tale of neo-tropical adventure you will encounter accounts of head colds, smoggy sweaty border crossings, and the incredible difficulties of vegetarians eating in an el salvadoran fried chicken joint ( Read more... )

ok, i just read rachel´s and she alluded to the mayan women story and said i´d probably tell it better. unfortunately i didn´t really tell it at all so now, under a bit of duress, comes the story of the angry mayan women ( Read more... )

don´t have much time, but i just looked at rachel´s machine (which she HATES, let me just say) and she has a nice juicy post going concerning this leg of the trip, so reference that one for more substance ( Read more... )

well, this will be a short one i guess, as i have all of five minutes in which to compose it, but i´ll do my best to capture the sentiments of the week ( Read more... )

well, we´re in antigua still, and it certainly is the ¨charming little colonial town¨ that evry guidebook in the world calls it: cobblestone streets, lovely and well-lit walkways, pristine mcdonalds and burger kings on every street . . . what more could a fella ask? actually i´ve been quite good and resisted the temptation to go into the fastfood ( Read more... )

well, it´s been a few days ánd we´ve had a few more adventures so now it´s time to update the old livejournal ( Read more... )

as im having trouble utilizing apostrophes and the enter key on this guatemalan "computer" there will be some strange punctuation or lack there of in this brief entry. this is not to be considered a reflection of poor health, mental or otherwise; indeed, i am in quite good health in both respects. we have spent the last few days in the northern ( Read more... )

We´ve left Na Luum and WWOOFing behind us now and are ready to embark on the next great (and sadly, the last) phase of our trip -- the fun touristy backpacker part. we´ll be heading to guatemale tomorrow where we´ll be seeing all kinds of wild ruins and animals and lakes and things. we´ll probably be in guatemala for a while and the more we hear ( Read more... )

As promised, this week brings you another exciting account of the goings on of that quirky peace of land called Na Lu´um where we´ve just completed our fifth week and celebrated el Día de Independencia. ¡Que bueno! We´d been hearing about the festivities of the holiday for the last few weeks and had even lent a hand to help set up some of the ( Read more... )

Well, I´m finally getting around to updating again and it´s been quite some time so there´s probably no possible way to get everything that´s happened into an entry. To begin with, however, i´m currently sitting in an incredibly posh incredibly air-conditioned incredibly american-mall-like indoors shopping center in chetumal, the capitol city of ( Read more... )