Merry Christmas to all. In just sixty two days I will be returning to Guatemala to work on another home for some deserving family. Each build is a new and exciting experience. The last three builds have been in the western highlands where altitude was a factor. This coming build will be in Flores, near the pristine ruins of Tikal, where heat and humidity may impact the team. My first visit visit to Guatemala was ten years ago when my wife and I visited my Peace Corps volunteer daughter for Christmas. She was living in Chiantla, in the Department of Huehuetenango. This was during a time when the gorillas would periodically come into the village, set up their loudspeakers, strut around with their weapons and then just fade away. My daughter's landlady would warn her to
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