Postcards from Guatemala
Life is funny. When we set out into the world at large back in May 2013, Plan A was to reach the southern tip of the American continent in a year or so. Plan...
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Zip-lines and Butterflies at Atitlán Nature Reserve
In our travels, our thrills and chills moments usually revolve around tempestuous seas and random encounters with wild creatures throughout our extraordinary world. But there comes a time when we must take adventure into...
Maya Traditions Medicine Garden
In the ancient Maya world, sickness was commonly deemed a direct consequence of a god’s judgmental eye. Since having one’s soul captured by a supreme being calls for urgent and robust action, the healing...
Portraits of Panajachel
They had been splashing the waters of Lake Atitlán for a good half hour, keeping track of an aquatic score updated by a speeding plastic ball. Becoming aware of an audience, their leaps turned...
Christmas Snow and Sun
As children of the Mediterranean, Christmas season was a time of howling winds, jittery cold and, if extraordinary luck prevailed, occasional glimpses of snow. As we grew older, the most treasured gift became not...
Home by Lake Atitlán
As chance would have it, the six-month anniversary of our entry into the meandering world of long-term travel found us in Guatemala, by the shores of Lake Atitlán. We had cake. According to our...
Who's in charge of this joint anyway? To learn a bit more about the brains behind the bedlam,