Blogs from Central America Caribbean - page 2074

It’s been a fairly quiet week here at Angel Valley Farm Bed & Breakfast. Well, not perfectly quiet. This past week has seen to brought many cows, calves and bulls in our yard! One more, we were awakened early by the bloodly loud sounds of Osita and Reina yelping at the top of their lungs. From my window, I couldn’t tell what they were barking at, but later on, we discovered a bull had gotten loose and came right into our side yard, most likely to feed on the various vegetation growing there. Later in the week, in full view of our guests sitting outside on the patio, we had a whole parade of cows, calves and bulls streaming up our driveway—they apparently got loose from their pen down the road. This happened several times this ... read more

I finished my last article a little puzzled about the attitude of many a traveller with some more thought, and help from a book, I have come up with a way to shed a bit of light of this. A few defintions and terms are necessary first. I´m going to borrow the terms from Zen and the Art of Motorcycle maintenance. A simplistic breaking down of human understanding gives two types: Classical and Romantic. Classical being ´primarily one of underlying form´, this basically means seeing things as part of structure where logic rules and things are restricted. And with Romantic being ´primarily in terms of apperance´ which is a little more self-explanatory. Both schools of thought suffer from similar problems and this can be seen when pretentiousness is considered. Classical Pretentiousness to the other school: Here ... read more

Hi everyone!!! Well I made it to to Nassau last night, it was a L O N G travel day. We are staying at the Atlantis hotel, it is the Disneyland of all hotels. The place is huge, there are many different swimming pools and slides all over. They also hava many pools with all sorts of animals in them. There are sharks, sea turtles, sting ray's and tons of fish. There is this one water slide where part of it goes under water and the tube is clear so you can see through. It goes under the pool that has the sharks in it!! It is really cool. So far we have just been laying around the pool and relaxing- I know pretty tough... :) I am getting really excited and ready to leave on ... read more

Tenkte jeg skulle samle blomsterbildene og bildene av lokale produkter paa ett sted. Har ikke tatt saa mange tekstilbilder enda, det kommer naar vi har vaert paa det virkelig store markedet i Chichicastenango, kanskje paa sondag!... read more

For the first time in a long time I actually sat next to strangers on a plane flight that were interesting. Gayle and Scott from Nebraska were next to me from Dallas to Guatemala City and the three-hour flight flew by (no pun intended). They were the exact opposite to me - conservatives from the mid-west who were very religious and home schooled their children. We had a great time discussing American foreign policy and the problems facing the USA. We decided it was mainly high fructose corn syrup. Surprisingly, we were in agreement on a lot of issues and they invited me to call on them next time I happened upon the mid-west. Scott was heading down to Guatemala for knee surgery as it was too expensive to do it in the USA as he ... read more