Traveling and seeing the world, ancient art, ruins and culture, whitewater kayaking, scuba diving and raku firing/pottery and lost wax bronze casting/sculpture are my pasions. Someday I'll find the right place to settle down have a family and open a dive shop/kayaking/raku/bronze school and studio. I've previously traveled through Mexico, Belize, Honduras, Guatemala, Nicaragua and Costa Rica. My favorite place so far is probably Lake Atitlan even with the idenginous people being treated almost like second class citizens in the country that they and their decendents have lived for thousands of years. My favorite ruin sites so far would have to be: Malinalco, Cacaxtla, Yaxchilan, Tikal, Copan, Lamanai, Caracol, Xochicalco, Teotenango, Tula, Yaxha, Quirigua, Ek Balam, Uxmal, Santa Rosa Xtampak, Calakmul, El Mirador, Ceibal, Teotihuacan, Monte Alban, Palenque, Tonina, Bonampak, Chichen Itza, Edzna, Labna, Sayil, Kabah, Mitla, Yagul, (only ball court you can actually kick a ball around on) El Tajin and K'una in the jungle near Lacanja. If you don't count the looters trenches K'una is almost exactly like it was when it was rediscovered and it gives you a good idea of what about twelve hundred years of jungle growth looks like. If you're ever in the Yucatan and you have a chance to do some cenote diving, do it, especially Dreamgate cenote which is unreal. There is nothing (short of hitting the perfect line through technical, seriously life threatening whitewater) like dropping torpedo style down a shear coral wall using only negatively buoyant lungs (exhaling) and the weight of the air in a full tank (ie no kicking/finning).

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