It´s just so hard to leave, say goodbye...Guatemala, so engaging and diverse, so yes, I made just one last stop before heading out. San Pedro, on beautiful Lago de Atitlan. "Welcome to Paradise," a neighboring village sign reads. While San Pedro has no such sign, having given all my senses illumination, a paradise it certainly felt. A shock of change. Where is this from there, that village just 8 hours north, in the chill of the mountians. Todos Santos, the village of simple rugged stillness, with the one comedora of four young women, sixteen years shaping and grilling tortillas, while keeping book in that wide-ruled, school kid notebook. The typico boiled pollo con tomato, served and fed the men who worked the dig of the towns new irregation system up on the hill. No, not far
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