Gushing Over Guatemala

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This is one day’s wandering around Guatemala City. About a hundred and twenty years ago a group of Guatemalan cartographers got together and spent twelve years riding around the country on foot, on burros, and on sailboats measuring their country inch by inch. Then they came back together and built … Read More

Horsing Around

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Varnish work continues around the boat, and we continue to go about life in the middle of it all. Though we are leaving soon for inland travels, we wanted to be around while work got going on Bumuzzle. The marina is across a small bay from the main part of … Read More

Rivers and Rain

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We got together with a few friends and headed up to the Hot Spring Waterfall. We walked down the trail past women doing their laundry in the river and came to this pretty waterfall. Not all that remarkable on the face of it, but the water up above is fed … Read More

Bound for Guatemala

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We left Utila a little before sunrise, and headed west for Guatemala. Shoutout to Ali for doing a quick visual inspection of the engine compartment before we left and noticing that I had left the cap off of the oil fill on one of the engines. I must say that … Read More

November 2008

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november 1 2008 : belize city, belize, central america On our first day in Belize we found out that the country is flooded. Historical flooding apparently not seen since 1961 in fact. Cities are under water, crops are washed away, and roads are sinking. The biggest problem for us is … Read More