Avoid The Antigua Tax With One-Way Tickets To Guatemala Airlines should ban me from booking anything other than one-way flights. Please, airlines, ban me! I’ll do whatever illicit behavior it takes. I’ve just clocked in my 12th day in Guatemala, a full month left before my flight to NYC and then to Asia. But…
So for the third time in my life, I found myself playing guitar for the police and people being arrested. When I’m in Guatemala, I drink gin. On one such night, sipping my gin at The Snug, I met the musician Corissa Bragg, who was drinking next to me. We made tentative plans to…
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See animals, and watch as lions stalk your vehicleAuto Safari Chapin is an animal park located on the CA-2 highway, near Escuintla, Guatemala. It opened in 1980 and recreates an African safari experience. Their mission is to preserve local fauna and educate the population about the importance of conservation. The park currently contains 96 species…
Scroll down to the bottom to find out about how you can win stuff 2:12pm: I’ve just finished a run up a mountain, ate a bean sandwich, slayed a dragon fruit, cleaned up my messes and at the moment I’m still in running attire, smoking a cigarette, listening to Kids on the Run by The…
The following is an excerpt from the manuscript I have been working on/existentialist crisis-ing on for the past two years. It is a non-fiction book details experiences from living in Guatemala 2008-2012, with the working title of “A Gringo’s Guatemala” that is in its second drafting. *** Gossiping is a problem in most work places and at the…
All around town evidence of the bandit’s coruscating reign of sparkle could be seen on glinting faces that puckered in a scowl whenever you asked them why they were wearing glitter. During a bear attack, one has at least some idea of how he will react (make friends with the bear via Doritos, play dead,…
“I tell you this will all my heart,” she tells them. “Sometimes our problems choke us and make us feel alone, but I’m here to help you if you ever need it because I love all of you.” “I’m not going to tell you the story of something that happened to my sister,” Doña Marí…
A quick search of my laptop shows that I possess seven unfinished drafts of articles about Monterrico, Guatemala. In one abandoned draft from 2008, I lead with, “Nothing by the sea ever lasts. Cars rust in record time. Sand is always in everything. You never get it fully out of your hair. Things rust away.…
Fellow travel bloggers and NYC musicians have all been helping us get to our $10,000 goal to put 55 students in school with The Integral Heart Foundation. That’s 55 individuals stories, each worth hearing and retelling–stories that begin with struggle, but stories that Mick and Debora and everyone at The Integral Heart Foundation are in…
