Archive for July, 2008
Wednesday, July 30th, 2008
The day of the ‘Black Cloud’
Day 316
Coban, Guatemala
In the afternoon it started raining. I tried to ignore it despite the fact that the rain was so heavy it disrupted the satellite signal. It was really coming down. A lot!
The owner started banging on my door and I came outside to find the car park outside my room under 6″ of [...]
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Friday, July 25th, 2008
Nana nana nana nana nana nana nana nana, Batman!
Day 312
Semuc Champey, Guatemala
I was at “the most beautiful place in Guatemala” but it didn’t quite seem like that. After my exhausting trip there I slept for 14 hours and decided I would go to the waterfalls of Semuc Champey in the afternoon. The weather conspired against me on that front as a black cloud [...]
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Thursday, July 24th, 2008
The road to Heaven
Day 310
Semuc Champey, Guatemala
I had to wait to pass a couple of buses filled with curious locals to survey the damage. Somehow the genius of Bills repair had held. No oil was coming out and I could continue. At least until I hit another big rock.
Nothing was going to stop the sun from setting though [...]
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Wednesday, July 23rd, 2008
The road from Hell
Day 310
Semuc Champey, Guatemala
The girl, Kara, I had spent the day sitting in the bank and fixing my brakes on Monday with still hadn’t come back from Tikal. I was slightly concerned but I really had to leave. I pointed out this information to the good people of Los Amigo hostel and after another spell [...]
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Tuesday, July 22nd, 2008
Some old pics
Day 309
Flores, Guatemala
I dug out my backup from Dec and Jan to make another copy and decided to play around with a few.
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Saturday, July 19th, 2008
Fixing my car
Day 308
Flores, Guatemala
My car had been making some scrapping noises in Belize when I was driving with Vanessa, seems like the brakes were on the way out. Stupidly I only just thought about getting them fixed since I was always giving lifts to people. I had a very hot day over the bridge with the [...]
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Friday, July 18th, 2008
Tikal, Guatemala
Got up at 2.50am to make it up to the ruins in Tikal for sunrise. We wandered through the awakening jungle by torch and moonlight past looming stone structures half glimpsed in the faint light.
We climbed up to the wooden platform above the layer of mist that carpeted the jungle and our group [...]
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Thursday, July 17th, 2008
Not a bad place to get stuck
Barton Creek Outpost, Belize
How not to eat a chili.
The beautiful Natalie.
Chilling in the Jungle.
Tarzan’s toilet with a monkey voyeur
There is Tarzan!
Just relax Katrijn. A bit more….
We went to check the car and get Eva’s bag.
Katrijn had a wound on her ankle which she was trying to keep dry. Luckily she had a strong [...]
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Thursday, July 17th, 2008
Day off in Flores
Flores, Guatemala
In Flores we wound up staying at Los Amigos, only Q30 in the dorms and they also do vegetarian food. Nice.
Franco, one of the Los Amigo hostel parrots.
Spanish study time. Te quero! :p
I have a vocabulary of about 700 words now and am looking forward to going to Spanish School.
Later on that afternoon I [...]
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Wednesday, July 16th, 2008
Welcome to Guatemala
Flores, Guatemala
No breakfast for us, Katrijn and I set off early for a very sweaty walk back to the car. Once there we found that Bill had patched up my leak with some JB Weld and we poured in a quart of oil and held our breath. It seemed to hold so in went another [...]
