We saw our first Mayan ruins at just after 5 AM. We’d booked a “sunrise tour”, which required being outside our hotel and ready to go at 3:30 AM (in case it’s been a while since you’ve been up at 3:30 AM, here’s the skinny: it’s incredibly, mind-poundingly early) followed by an hour squeezed into [...]
Today, my sister and I are off to Guatemala for some serious vacationing, so my normally relentless writing pace is going to slow down for a brief period. Neither one of us speaks much (read: any) Spanish, so this ought to be fun! There’ll be pictures when I get back, though. That is, assuming my camera doesn’t [...]