After spending every hour of every day with the other volunteers here we end up being almost like a family. So when some of the longer term ones leave its a bit tough, not only because we end up doing more work until new volunteers come, but because we really miss them around the house. This month six of those special people have left us, Miguel & Lara the couple from Madrid, their good friend Pilar, Ana, another Madrider, Maria from Andalucia, and one of the longest term volunteers, Quique from Galicia. The three Madrileños left because their time was up [View Full Entry]

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The weather wasn´t that good that day in atitlan but I had a pretty good time although the pics don´t look too good...oh. well! [View Full Entry]

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After a month of being stationary, the restless urge to hit the road stirred heavily in my body and mind. We said good bye to our friends and families, packed our belongings in the truck and left our temporary home, but not before picking up an additional traveler to toss in the back seat. Her name is Terra and she's from Wisconsin. She asked if she could tag along with us for a few weeks, hitching a ride to Nicaragua. We were surprised that even after we told her that we sleep in the dirt and rarely shower that she was [View Full Entry]

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GUATEMALA Somehow, she has been calling since childhood, when I first visited in 1973, still in cloth diapers, where my parents decided to travel different ways... Guatemala has been beckoning since I was one. Perhaps, by returning, I can be One, again... Since the beginning of this voyage, there has been a sense of awakening, of dreams not yet dreamt becoming real, of finding myself while shedding bits of a past being, a being carrying energetic loads of karma that were unknowingly gathered and treasured as my own. With every day, the Wow! is even stronger, the importance of the [View Full Entry]

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Greetings from sunny San Pedro La Laguna. Oh wait no - its pissing it down...AGAIN! Apart from the glorious sunshine the day we arrived (last wednesday) it has rained or atleast been very overcast, grey and miserable, every day we´ve been here. Add to the that the gorgeous (and bloody massive) roast chiken dinner we had last night (sunday) at the British Pub here (so far I am yet to find a post office, a museum/art gallery or anything else vaguely cultural - but they know whats important!!!!!!!) we could in fact be at home with you guys! So, what have [View Full Entry]

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I got some real cool pics that I will be uploading soon, just wanted to check if you are getting some kind of info. please let me know. Aloha Giorgio [View Full Entry]

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Als nachdem das wiedersehen mit dem lieben jan mit nica-rum gefeiert wurde, machten wir uns auch schon bald auf den weg zum naechsten ziel.. und zwar zu den naechstgelegenen "hotsprings".. wieder in die chickenbuse rein.. aber alles anders weil zu zweit lustiger... unterdessen oder immer noch, aber eigentlich wieder, viel gepaeck (24kg).. und schlussendlich in einem bergdorf angekommen.. ja die regenzeit hat angefangen.. und hier moechte ich mich also herzlich bei sam bedanken welcher mir eine goretex jacke verkauft hat ohne kapuze... hey alter.. meine bedenken waren also schon berechtigt, und auch deinen einwand dass ich dann einen mexicanersombrero tragen werde, [View Full Entry]

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Hi all...hope your gald to see we have finally got some photos up!! Thought we´d give you an update on what we have been doing since our last entry..FINALLY! After our spectacular sunrise tour of Tikal in Guatamala, we headed soth west to Antigua, which is a town just outside Guatamala city. Its old and colonial and a beautiful place in Guatamala...cobbled streets, old churches and surrounded by volcanoes...we stayed in a very "atmospheric hostel" and managed to taste the local nightlife after a week of bussing it and trecking (in the smallest sense of the word!). Now, walking into a [View Full Entry]

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Hola, Nick has allowed me this once to do a travel update. The reason being we did our first proper "hike" two days ago, and in order for me to be able to move on and maybe even do another "hike" i need to express my self in words. You´ll notice i put the word hike in speech marks...thats because it was a lie...and i am still trying to think of something more suitable!!! Let me begin, we had a choice of two hikes, both leaving at 6am in the morning from San Pedro La Laguna, one was to go up [View Full Entry]

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ja wiedermal nach einer halsbrecherischen busfahrt mit den sagenumwobenen chickenbuses welche wie gewohnt, fahren wie die bekloppten, irreschnell, umsomehr leute , umsomehr rasen.. andere logik kann ich nicht erkennen, plus einer laengeren fahrt mit cracksuechtigen tuctucfahrern (wasn tuctuc? son 3 raedriges piaggoding.. wie kohli mal gehabt hat.. wisst ihr eigentlich das man mit denen auf die seite kippen kann? geht ganz einfach :-) dann einfach aussteigen und wieder aufstellen..), bin ich dann doch mal endlich an einem ort angekommen. dieser wirkt angenehm, so habe ich auf einem kleinen huegel ein hostal gefunden, mit seeblick und (!) tonstudio (!) tja... und sonst [View Full Entry]

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