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 [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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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, u [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 hu [View Full Entry]

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So.... we left Flores tired, hot, but at least we didnt miss the bus, and we got to witness the most amazing electrical storm! we headed South, away from the heat, which was recorded at about 37 celsius. We also escaped a jaded, dope fiend Canadian at our hostel, AND, another Canadian, who had a story for every occassion as he reckoned he was a travel writer....i have sold a picture, that doesnt make me a travel photographer....you'd understand if you met him...so what is it with the Canadians!! We stopped off en route at a little petrol station at this [View Full Entry]

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The Guatemalan antics have kept rolling on since my last blog. My next stop was to Antigua for Semana Santa (or Holy Week) celeberations. Semana Santa is the week that runs from the Sunday before Easter until Easter Sunday, and all throughout Latin America its a time for big celebrations, street fiestas, carnivals and so on - i had to make a reservation to be in Antigua over Semana Sanata quite a while back, as everyone knows that the festivities are on a grander scale in Antigua than anywhere else in Central America. There were heaps of processions through the city, [View Full Entry]

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Hola meine Lieben.. boooooooooah, die Zeit vergeht viel zu schnell - ich kanns gar nicht glauben..nur noch 14 Tage.. Well, dann berichte ich euch wiedereinmal, was ich so die woche ueber getrieben habe. Es war a anstrengende Woche, mit viel herumreisen. Ich war mit David, Rory und Andrew in San Pedro / Lago di Atitlan - das Leben dort is mega billig .. doch das Leben dort is auch ganz anders, dort gibts keine Regeln und Gesetzte .. San Pedro is sehr sehr hippi und alternativ .. Und in San Pedro bin ich mir das erste Mal wirklich als Fremde vorgekommen, [View Full Entry]

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