I’ve spent the past three days retracing my roots here in Guatemala City, where twelve days past the due date and weighing in at ten pounds, six ounces I came into this world back in the year of 1982. An evangelical televangelist was the president of the country at the time – or dictator, I [...]
Entries from March 7th, 2009
Roots
March 7th, 2009 · Comments Off · Travel
Tags:civil war·Guatemala·human rights·indigenous·Johnny Cash·Mayan·quetzal·Sipacapa·Tecun Uman
Overnight roadtrip!
March 5th, 2009 · Comments Off · Travel
Okay, so my plan was to leave Sipacapa this morning and come back to Guatemala City with the mayor of Sipacapa, Delfino, who was headed into town for meetings. Actually, my plan before that was to come back on Friday by myself. But plans change. And they change repeatedly. Yesterday at about 5pm I learned [...]
Back to Sipacapa
March 3rd, 2009 · Comments Off · Travel
I´ll try to keep it light after my soapbox earlier today. I am writing from an office at a school in the town of Sipacapa, having spent the day meandering from San Marcos to here. I say meandering because it involved slow roads and several stops along the way. We stopped at Tres Cruces, the [...]