🇺🇸 Primera semana en Quetzaltenango

July 20, 2015.Reading time 10 minutes.

Freshly arrived in Cobán, we headed straight out the next morning, southward, to the picturesque, colonial city Antigua. The short trip to Antigua marked Julien’s first chicken bus (camioneta) ride, our 38-month wedding anniversary, and our first experience staying under the looming presence of a volcano. Julien’s first chicken bus ride Looking for a hotel […]

🇺🇸 Inception

July 15, 2015.Reading time less than 1 minute.

July 15, 2015 Inception Day three of Julien’s Spanish classes, for whatever reason, he took on the difficult task of explaining the movie Inception to his teacher Cynthia. Forty-five fatiguing minutes later he promised himself he would think twice before launching into such a complicated subject in a new language.

🇺🇸 Llegando a Guatemala

July 12, 2015.Reading time 13 minutes.

With that July 13 deadline looming over us, we knew we had five days to get to get from Cancún, Mexico to Quetzaltenango, Guatemala. This in mind we set out on an intense bussing trip: a 6-hour overnight to Chetumal at the Mexican/Belizean border set to arrive at 4am; and then hope to catch a […]

🇺🇸 Last Days in La Habana

July 10, 2015.Reading time 10 minutes.

*** Fitting for a last Cuba blog, we have a video resume of our week trip to the island: Cuba – Anne & Ju Our Viñales guide told us there are three eras of cars in Havana: the classic 50s American cars, the Soviet cars from the 80s, and the newest, Chinese cars. Here are […]

🎥 Howler monkeys of Tikal, Guatemala

July 10, 2015.Reading time less than 1 minute.

July 9, 2015 Visiting the ruins of Tikal, surrounded by howler monkeys (and chatty Australians). View from our hostal. And then our favorite breakfast place in Flores, when things were calm, and then when the afternoon downpour came through. /// Visite des ruines de Tikal, entourés de singes hurleurs (et d’Australiens bavards). Vue depuis notre […]

🇺🇸 Viñales

July 9, 2015.Reading time 6 minutes.

We took a day tour to the lush Viñales Valley, an organized tour that included a lot of seemingly random sites that just so happened to be located in the same-ish area. There was the trip to the liquor fabrication plant that wasn’t running because, Saturday. There was the stop at the Cueva del Indio, […]

🎥 Cuba

July 8, 2015.Reading time less than 1 minute.

July 1-7, 2015 A week in La Habana /// Une semaine à La Havane

🇺🇸 Habanaventura

July 8, 2015.Reading time 9 minutes.

Cuba was intense for its busyness, its heat, its lack of snack food, its curious, crumbling infrastructure, its over abundance of rum (this coming from a rum-lover!), and its overall feeling of resilient happiness. We stayed in La Habana for a week with just a day-trip to Viñales and we came away with a lot […]

🇺🇸 Roasting in Cuba

July 6, 2015.Reading time less than 1 minute.

July 6, 2015 Roasting in Cuba My flip-flop also suffered in the hot Cuban temperatures, the strap-attachment anchored under the shoe melting and popping out resulting in the irreversable destruction of my right shoe.

🇺🇸 Foreigner sentiment

July 5, 2015.Reading time less than 1 minute.

July 5, 2015 Foreigner sentiment We had a good laugh when a South Korean in one of our tours in Cuba noted “For a communist country, nothing is free” resuming perfectly our sentiment at having to pay to use the bathrooms even where we were patrons, give change to anyone who gave us directions or […]