If Quetzaltenango is Neverneverland for 20-somethings, San Pedro la Laguna is lalaland for hippies.
Even more than other expat centers in Guatemala (the main ones being Antigua, Quetzaltenango and the towns around Lake Atitlan) San Pedro seems totally disconnected from reality. Of course, I’ve only been here about four hours and we are right in [...]
Sometimes, I call myself a “slow traveler.”
Other times, I wonder if I’m the worst, most lazy traveler ever.
I might be the only person in history who has traveled in Guatemala without seeing Tikal. I was in Guatemala for six weeks summer, and I “just didn’t feel like it.” I was having a great time [...]
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Posted 18 June 2009
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Since I always get travel gadgets from Mountain Equipment Co-op for my birthday, I thought I would use the next few posts to write about the gizmos I like to take traveling with me.
But first, here are things that I do not, I repeat do not like to pack. Note: I have taken all [...]
People keep on asking me: “How do you feel about leaving Ottawa so soon?”
There was a time that I’d get really choked up when I left home or moved. A time when setting out to places unfamiliar was emotionally upsetting and draining.
Now it feels like par for the course. In fact, I’m feeling content [...]
The other day I tried on a dress in front of my roommate.
“Wow, that looks great on you!” she said.
“Yeah, but I’m only interested in any clothes I that I would wear in Central America. This is too revealing… you can see half my boobs.”
“Yeah, but it looks hot! Take it anyways!”
I know [...]
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“I Hemorrhage Money”
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“Now Taking Bets on When I Will Be Broke.”
I am not nearly the “budget traveler” that I’d like to think I am.
This isn’t to say that I mind roughing it. I am, as my father would say, “a mudder.” I sleep in the $4 dorms, I enjoy cheap street food [...]
Whether you are traveling in a developing country or Western Europe, chances are you have hidden money somewhere on your person. Presumably, this will keep it safe from criminals and act as a backup supply if everything else is lost. I guess this might be a tad paranoid… but it doesn’t hurt so it can’t [...]
When I was 20, I had my first (and really, only) longish term boyfriend. He was a pretty nice guy, decent looking and smart.
I got annoyed with him a lot.
One of the things that annoyed me the most was that he hadn’t traveled.
That’s right, I got annoyed about stuff that he didn’t [...]
I have a complicated relationship with guidebooks.
While I’m in Canada and daydreaming about my next trip, guidebooks are like crack to me. Before leaving for West Africa last summer, I read Rough Guide and Lonely Planet’s West Africa books and Bradt’s Burkina Faso guide front to cover at least four or five times each. [...]
Still 7 weeks until I arrive in Guatemala (but who’s counting.) Unfortunately, that means that until then I am experiencing little more than sitting at my computer, furiously typing out my last few papers before I finish my Masters. This probably does not make for exceptionally interesting blog posts. Regardless, I have been hit more [...]
