*breaks through the surface gasping for air* I´m ALIVE! …*barely!* Did you know it´s ILLEGAL for Americans to be in Cuba? O´man. The stories I have to tell! BUT NO TIME! I´ve got a bus…
Browsing Category central america
zapatistas
***** In January of 1994, a group of Mayan Indians (calling itself the Ejercito Zapatista de Liberacion Nacional) rose up against the Mexican government and took over San Cristobal (and three neighboring towns) for five…
san cristobal
***** Okay, San Cristobal, Chiapas Mexico is awesome! We walked the city for hours today, and around every corner found new ruins, churches or other click-worthy scenery. In addition to being clean, colorful, and full…
5 minutes missed
***** While picking up my clean clothes yesterday, the laundry woman asked me, “You work with the children in the dump don`t you?” I said, “Yes. How did you know that?”. “I saw your picture…
el salvador
Today marks my 8-mo anniversary of being on “da-road”. Was flipping though my photo archives and found this picture, taken almost exactly two years ago from my webcam at CollegeClub. Think it reflects how I…
scars of travelling in central america
Scarred I think that in general, human bodies are a bit travel-phobic. It´s amazing how much they dislike the water, food and germs of other-than-home environments. Last week, five of my six roommates were bed-ridden…
grandmas aren’t always this sexy
***** This is my bus stop…. A view worthy of a “stop” – bus or no bus. ***** Guatemala regularly receives mass shipments of American second hand clothing, which it then re-sells for pennies at…
rising the souls of the dead
Feria del Barrilete Gigante “Giant Kite Festival” Latin America prefers to celebrate a Day of Saints instead of a “Dia de los Brujas” (“Day of the Witches”…aka Halloween). And how exactly do they celebrate it?…