Hey guys. It's Thursday!!!! The day before Friday!!! Hope you guys are enjoy your day! Whereas typically Thursdays are what I call "my happy day".. I had started to think last night, as this leg of the tour is coming to an end, that I'm nothing more then a face in the crowd of travelers to many of the locals I've met here. It's not that it's a bad thing.. it's just that I've met so many interesting people and I guess I sorta wish I could be a bigger part of thei...

Ooook!! Now we're talking. Today's Spanish class was way more productive then yesterday! It helps that I went to bed at 9:30pm last night. I was really surprised at how much I learned today! I'm still not ready to start writing this blog in Spanish yet, but who knows. Maybe by the end of this tour I might give a shot and u folk will just have to google translate it. :P So... a little bit about the city of Antigua. The city is made up a little bit like a grid. Al...

Day 3. Getting a bit of writer's block for today's posting. It may have something to do with the obscene amount of alcohol I drank yesterday (some guy even bought me a glass of absinthe!!!), or maybe the fact that I couldn't drink any water before going to bed or maybe it was the 4hrs of intensive one-on-one Spanish lessons I had today. Needless to say my mind is feeling like mush! Good news is... it's Valentines day and LoVE is in the air in Guatemala :)) I'll...

Ala gran!!! My day started with a walk around the hotel again looking for some action. I didn't have to go far! The street outside was blocked for pedestrians. I was told the local government was promoting being active so they apparently shut the street down on Sundays for people to walk their dog, ride their bike and just do whatever. It's similar to what we do with Island Park drive during the summer. ;) Later, I met my driver (Carlos) who took me to the Spani...

Day1 Welcome to Guatemala! Greeted by a subway and mcdonalds in the airport!!! Ahhhhhhh so this is traveling!? For starters, i had to take 3 flights to get here... Ottawa, Toronto, El-Salvador, Guatemala and I have to say. They were all very pleasant! The flights were smooth and full of "ouuuus" and "ahhhhhhs". The ocean south of the Florida keys are visibly polluted with oil! I saw it with my own eyes!!! That was part of why I wanted to take this voyage. I wan...