All Over Guatemala

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Our poor rental car is getting a lot more work, and depreciation, than its eight dollar a day rate could possibly cover. The nearest halfway decent grocery store to the marina is a ninety minute drive away in Puerto Barrios. We’ve made the trip a couple of times trying to … Read More

Quiet Day in Fronteras

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We’ve had a knack lately for getting caught in traffic jams. Here we were the first car behind the beauty queen parade. Another day we were the first car behind a walking funeral. They’ve got a bit of everything in the tiendas along main street. Hell, they’ve even got my … Read More

Around the Rio Dulce

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We visited the hot water springs waterfall a couple months ago, but rainy season has kicked in now so we wanted to check it out again. The water was deeper this time so we could actually swim around, and there was virtually nobody else around. All of the water up … Read More

Las Conchas Waterfalls

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On the way home from Tikal we found another off the beaten path place to punish our rental car with. Las Conchas is a series of beautiful waterfalls that during the dry season people can jump off the top of. Unfortunately we showed up at the height of rainy season … Read More

Tikal

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It’s fun visiting places that Ali and I have been before. We visited Tikal way back in 2008, camping in the VW bus on a soccer field at the ruins entrance where a new museum now sits. It’s fun to see our kids stand in places where Ali and I … Read More

Flores

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With the chicken bus mayhem behind us we loaded up early and hit the road, this time planning to bypass Guatemala City and head all the way to the boat, about ten hours away in Rio Dulce. It was a long boring day, but we broke it up with a … Read More

Chicken Bus Chase

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We woke up early on Chichi market day and watched the fog roll through the cemetery. We aren’t accustomed to tablecloths and multiple forks place settings at breakfast, but we were getting the full treatment at this hotel. Some of the Mayan women are so tiny that eight-year-old Lowe is … Read More