{"id":50,"date":"2001-03-28T01:08:00","date_gmt":"2001-03-28T01:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mercurystate.wordpress.com\/2001\/03\/28\/322\/"},"modified":"2008-09-17T15:30:42","modified_gmt":"2008-09-17T19:30:42","slug":"322","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/seekingsol.com\/322\/","title":{"rendered":"upon arrival"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a onclick=\"javascript:pageTracker._trackPageview('\/outgoing\/www.zing.com\/picture\/p686ffac2983f7012112deecda574adfe\/feb68998.jpg.orig.jpg');\"  href=\"http:\/\/www.zing.com\/picture\/p686ffac2983f7012112deecda574adfe\/feb68998.jpg.orig.jpg\" target=\"new\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.zing.com\/picture\/p686ffac2983f7012112deecda574adfe\/feb68998.jpg.thumb.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h3>&#8220;Love At First Sight&#8221;<\/h3>\n<p>*****<\/p>\n<p><strong>A pre-blog note:<\/strong> Blogger apparently doesn\u00b4t work *boo!*  in Guatemala. Please give <a onclick=\"javascript:pageTracker._trackPageview('\/outgoing\/www.mercuryfrog.com');\"  href=\"http:\/\/www.mercuryfrog.com\" target=\"new\">Merc<\/a> big props for posting my blogs for me. <strong>You\u00b4re a superstar, Merc.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>*****<\/p>\n<p>So YES *you can stop biting your fingernails mom and dad* <strong>I\u00b4m alive!<\/strong> In fact, I\u00b4m BETTER than alive. I fell head over heals in love with Antigua the minute I got off the bus. &#8220;Increible!&#8221; I mean, really&#8230;just <strong>LOOK at that volcano<\/strong>! I\u00b4ll take more pictures<br \/>\ntoday and have <a href=\"http:\/\/www.zing.com\/album\/?id=4292838741\" target=\"new\">created an album for all my Antigua<br \/>\nphotos<\/a> since I won\u00b4t be able to post them all here.<\/p>\n<p>Like I\u00b4ve said hundreds of times before, my favorite part of traveling is <strong>the people I meet along the way<\/strong>. I spent yesterday evening and night chatting it up with FANTASTIC people *pictured below* from all over the world (Germany, Norway, Greece, Canada, The States, y mas). There were enough laughs to leave my stomach muscles sore this morning&#8230;and THAT is <strong>an ACHE I welcome<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><a><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.zing.com\/picture\/p32a8819fe3f6cf842079801499a45ac4\/feb68993.jpg.thumb.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>****<br \/>\nOh&#8230;and I found an internet cafe with a connection FASTER that that at the offices of CollegeClub *shakes head in total disbelief!* BUT in addition to learning a new language, <strong>I have to learn and entirely new KEYBOARD<\/strong>. Give me props. 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