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Almost back to Oakland for the Mirador Four
It’s the last leg of our journey back from Guatemala and I marvel at the difference in the landscape from above — houses neatly dotted against the foothill ridges and valleys of California’s sloping red terrain inching all the way from Los Angeles in random sproutings of civilization. It’s the same feeling I had while [...]
It’s raining in Guatemala and soon we’ll have no shelter
The skies are crying tonight after an hour-long apagado in Guatemala City. There is something calming and quite comforting about the rains as they clean all the muck and grime from the day’s wear. The desolation of the usually empty streets of downtown Zona 1 seems almost appropriate. Sometimes I am reminded of Macondo and [...]
Laptop-less existence
This is the first time I have travelled without a laptop and it’s a bit like the ball and chain was left back home in a drawer. So I am getting to know my Universal Freedom keyboard well as I write with a Guatemala guide underneath the keyboard to create this illusory desktop feel. [...]