On Sunday a big chunk of Avenida Las Americas is shut down to traffic and opened up to pedestrians. They do this in every major city we visit now and there is usually a good time to be found. Blue corn tortillas are possibly the greatest single food item on … Read More
Guatemala Colors
I love how nobody but us pays any attention to a herd of goats walking right down the sidewalk in Guatemala City. This is outside the main Post Office where we had just been informed they didn’t have any stamps. It’s all about the wonderful colors splashed around the city. … Read More
Guatemala City
Spent a few days getting the lay of the land in Guatemala City. I took this picture because I kind of liked the way the painting contrasted with the McDonald’s sign. But since I’m on the subject, wow are there a lot of fast food places in Guatemala City. We … Read More
The Rio to the City
The town of Fronteras, Rio Dulce, may not be pretty, but if you need something there’s a fair chance that you’ll find it somewhere along the road. Food, fruit, banks, hardware, and even a sizable marine store. Just don’t step into the road without looking both ways. Remember the 70s … Read More
Horsing Around
Varnish work continues around the boat, and we continue to go about life in the middle of it all. Though we are leaving soon for inland travels, we wanted to be around while work got going on Bumuzzle. The marina is across a small bay from the main part of … Read More
Summer Season Prep
The best part of sailing around the world on the route and timeline that we took was that we were always moving. We took a few months off in New Zealand, but that hardly felt like we were waiting out a hurricane/cyclone season since we had so much to see … Read More
Rivers and Rain
We got together with a few friends and headed up to the Hot Spring Waterfall. We walked down the trail past women doing their laundry in the river and came to this pretty waterfall. Not all that remarkable on the face of it, but the water up above is fed … Read More
Rio Dulce Life
Our new digs for hurricane season. It’s a small eco-resort with maybe twenty-five slips and a bunch of small bungalows. There isn’t much of a breeze here, so the cleaning ladies just drape their daily laundry all over the docks. We went right to work washing and drying everything out … Read More
Bound for Guatemala
We left Utila a little before sunrise, and headed west for Guatemala. Shoutout to Ali for doing a quick visual inspection of the engine compartment before we left and noticing that I had left the cap off of the oil fill on one of the engines. I must say that … Read More
Leaving Roatan
Getting ready to leave Roatan didn’t require much, aside from gathering up groceries. The grocery store here was so good that we knew it would be some time before we saw aisles packed with food like this again. Guatemala will be loaded with fresh fruit, but we won’t be around … Read More
Fantasy Island
Hanging out at the beach on Fantasy Island, the three-star resort with a million rooms, twenty guests, and a ten bucks a night marina. No cruiser ever minds a hard passing rain shower to clean the boat off. With our lifestyle there isn’t much call for seasonal clothing, which means … Read More