Posts from ‘October, 2009’

After all the excitement of Semuc Champey, we were ready for a bit of R&R.  We left the high mountains on September 15th, Guatemalan independence day, and drove south to Guatemala City.  We hadn’t planned on staying in the capital, or even stopping for that matter, but we figured that since it was a major [...]

I pulled out the map of Guatemala and unfolded it across the dashboard.  We had just driven the 2hrs south from Flores to Ruxruja, and were faced with a fork in the road: we could travel the long way around to Semuc Champey via Coban on the main highway- a distance of 150 miles, or, [...]

As some of you might have guessed, we are a little behind in our blog.  It turns out that when you are trappsing around Central America, everyday seeing new and unbelievable, once-in-a-life time sights, actually sitting down and finding time to write about them all kind of gets relegated to the back burner.  I suppose [...]