Blogs from Antigua, Capital Region, Guatemala, Central America Caribbean - page 89

Diego's other car is a Porsche but we can't drive it too much...he and others say there is too much resentment here for that kind of car to be in public...That's a relief to James because Diego has in the past been driven by the machine rather than drive it. The machine. He says he was clean and sober before I got there. Then he started to party. He got very blue pill on James. The thing about partying is to remember your Source in the middle of it. All chemically induced partying is a substitute for the feeling of Source. It's the soma of Brave New World and put square under the Agents control--that's what the Agents in the Matrix want. They don't want anyone to drop into the mainframe. So many don't get this ... read more

Ik ben inmiddels goed en wel aangekomen! De vlucht naar ging prima. We (Rob, Yolanda, Merlijn en ik) waren rond 5.15 uur op Schiphol, waar mij nog een leuke verrassing wachtte, aangezien Suzanne (Tenkink) daar ook was. In Miami ging alles verbzingwekkend snel: veel sneller dan in Londen dus nog 3 uur wachten... Eerst maar even gaan vragen hoe ik aan een boarding kaart kon komen. Gelukkig maar, want blijkbaar was het toch vreemd dat ik die nog niet had. Maar alles werd geregeld (en op tijd want het vliegtuig bleek overboekt). Met een klein uur vertraging in Guatemala aangekomen, waar mijn bagage gelukkig ook was... Ik was inmiddels aardig moe want ik was al ruim 24 uur op na een nachtrust van 4 uur. Ik werd vanaf het vliegveld opgehaald (20.50 uur locale tijd) De ... read more

Buenos Tardes! Well I just got back from climbing Pacaya, an active volcano about 1 and half hours or so out of Antigua. It was quite the journey! It took about two hours to get up, and all though that does´t seem like a long time, when you are climbing straight up it's quite the workout. It was especially hard hiking it in my jean skirt! I took all my dirty laundry to the laundromat yesterday and forgot to take my jeans out of the bag so I could wear them today. It was something like 7 km up or may be that was in total, I don't remember. It wasn't actually too bad for the first while but once you got to the final part towards the hole up top, it was very steep. I ... read more

All Saints Day and an incredible hangover after last night´s Halloween celebration...We thought it might be a great idea to go to Santiago and see the festival of All Saints Day. Two chickenbus rides later we found ourselves in the middle of a celebration on a graveyard. Us lutherans are used to that graveyards are quiet and dark and a little sad places, so boy were we surprised to different relationship the guatemalans have with their ancestors! A guatemalan man we met, told us that the indigenous population communicate with their ancestors through flying bright coloured kites on All Saints Day. The graves were painted in different colors and there were children running and laughing everywhere and it was truly a happy occasion. Families had picnics on the graves (which I personally wanted to see after ... read more

Hola! So here it goes... I arrived in Guatemala City late Thursday evening and stepped outside the airport to tons of people yelling names of others they were to pick up or meet. I was quite overwhelmed, but managed to make my way over to the taxi's and went straight to the guesthouse that I wanted to stay in that night. Normally everyone says that you should get right out of Guat City once you arrive because it is unsafe, but if you arrive at night you are never to take a bus in the dark because of highway robberies that go on. So I went to the guesthouse and left the next afternoon for Antigua. I walked aroung Guat City in the morning a bit with this girl I met from San Francisco, it wasn't ... read more