The Ramblings of an Aspiring Expat Traveling Nomad Wanderer
It started raining last night. We sat and chatted with two Czechs from Canada. It was their last night here. Lenka was trying to gently turn down an amorous Cuban’s emailed invitation to Paris. She has a hearty laugh and a quick smile. Peter has worked in the oil industry in Canada for 4 years. His Czech and Canadian accent has me hang on his every word with quiet amusement.… Read the rest
Here I’m sitting in a hammock listening to a sermon in Spanish from our neighbor church. Jill, me and Florie are alone in an empty hostel. Wellington went to watch the futbol game somewhere. I was thinking last night about football. In USA it’s a game where the main body part touching the ball are hands. Seems like soccer/futbol has a better claim to the name.… Read the rest
Max talked to Jill this morning over the phone. He invited us to go help out in Coban at the restaurant. We are excited to go to the city. Maybe we will move on sooner than we thought. I hadn’t let that thought enter my head but it does make me excited now. Lanquin is beautiful but travelers stay here and get out in a couple days.… Read the rest
We’ve been in Lanquin for 5 days. Today is Monday. I haven’t been posting because we have limited internet and there isn’t much to talk about. Today is gorgeous. I woke to blue skies and bright sun. The difference between the sunbeams and the shade is dramatic here. On days like this I prefer the shade. Most of the days last week were cloudy in the morning and the mist over the mountains was thick. … Read the rest
Yesterday we learned a little about the hostel and Max. Jill made a new spreadsheet for guest invoices. I helped start to build a wall out of this bamboo kind of woody grass. I asked a Guatemalan what it was and he said tan-y-yah. 
Here are some other pictures I took this morning.
THis morning we went to the ruins of Tik’al. We caught our bus at 8 AM from the hostel. Tik’al is about an hour from Flores. There were a four brits on the bus, Jasmine and Paul, and another couple who were just taking the shuttle to the ruins. We stopped in Santa Elena and picked up a family from Long Beach who had come to Guatemala to visit their grandmother in Antigua.… Read the rest
Today was all about cash. We walked to the airport to get to a bank that would allow us to withdraw some Quetzales. The ATMs we had tried didn’t work with our card. After that was taken care of we had a delicious plate of fruit with exquisite coffee at the airport lounge. We walked over a dirty pedestrian bridge to a big mall and browsed around.… Read the rest
A lot of movement happened today. We awoke in San Ignacio, Belize. Jill did some yoga on the roof. I took a shower in a mortar and stone bathroom. The shower there had one knob, a step up from Caye Caulker where the shower had one lever. We ate some Avocado on tortillas for a first breakfast. I drank some of the nescafe in the kitchen.… Read the rest
We left wonderful Caye Caulker this morning bound for Flores Guatemala. We did not leave before we got a Cinnamon Roll from the bakery, one of our enticements.. When we arrived at the bus terminal/water taxi terminal in Belize City we found that the only bus for Flores had already left. I talked to a taxi driver and he said he would drive us to the border for $100 US, three times more expensive than the bus.… Read the rest
Today we got up and walked to a Cafe and got some coffee and tea. I bought a triple chocolate espresso brownie as well. We walked to the Ragamuffin Tours and checked in for our snorkeling tour. We got fitted for masks and fins and they asked what we wanted for lunch. We both ordered the seafood curry. We walked back to the hostel and ate our granola breakfast.… Read the rest
