Our new street dog turned foster dog, Chavo. For the first two days he was with us he was hardly awake—slept like he hadn’t slept in months. We pulled huge ticks off of him and took him to the vet where he got a rabies shot and some other stuff … Read More
Happy Animals
It’s been a busy few days around our house. First, Ali somehow got involved in saving Chacho the spider monkey in Barra de Navidad, Mexico. Honestly, when it first came up I thought, “Come on, he’s an old monkey by now, what are we going to do for him from … Read More
Chacho
Chacho the spider monkey, after spending nearly two decades behind the Hotel Sand’s in Barra de Navidad, Mexico, MIGHT BE RELEASED, and handed over to animal rescuers who can offer him a better life! Our family has visited Chacho numerous times, and each time we felt sad/bad/angry for this beautiful … Read More
Volcán de Agua
Volcán de Agua is right out our front door this month, and is really everywhere in Antigua. It’s a beautiful town everywhere you look even without the volcano, but having that as a backdrop just seals the deal. It has been nice to step out the door, turn right and … Read More
Convento La Recolección
Antigua has got to be the Guatemalan capital of weddings. The kids are in Spanish classes for a few hours a day while we are in Antigua. Lowe’s teacher showed him a picture of a watermelon and asked him what it was. “Sandía.” So she asked him what it was … Read More
La Antigua
The El Carmen market spills out of the building some days. It’s really just the setting of the market that sets it apart. The stuff for sale is pretty standard market tourist gear, which doesn’t necessarily make it any less enjoyable to stroll around. There are so many church ruins … Read More
An Antigua Day
Spanish colonial architecture and great volcano views. Antigua is a beautiful place. There is another bedroom in the house, with two beds, but there was never really any doubt that we’d all end up together in this room. Who can resist bunk beds? Just like with living on a boat, … Read More
Off to Antigua
Our time in Guatemala City is coming to an end. It was a good stop for us. We got the camera repaired, dental visits checked off the list, lots of tourist-ing done, and in general got to know a good chunk of the city well enough that on a return … Read More
A City Day Hike
Another day exploring the city. We got dropped off across town at a cathedral and just proceeded to walk the streets from there—hanging out in plazas, eating mango and watermelon from the street vendors, grabbing a ridiculously large lunch consisting of piles of steak and chorizo, and walking some more. … Read More
Guatemala City Wandering
A few blocks away from us, perched up on a hill overlooking downtown is Fort Saint John, now housing a military museum. Hard to get too excited about military history in a place that is still pretty freshly recovering from a civil war, but history is history, and the perch … Read More
About Town
Another Sunday riding the streets of Guatemala City. We hit the mall to get Ouest some new kicks since she grows daily and had toes poking out of her shoes. Now up to a size 6 1/2 I can no longer distinguish between her shoes and Ali’s. Walked right up … Read More
Gushing Over Guatemala
This is one day’s wandering around Guatemala City. About a hundred and twenty years ago a group of Guatemalan cartographers got together and spent twelve years riding around the country on foot, on burros, and on sailboats measuring their country inch by inch. Then they came back together and built … Read More