Sunday, August 24th, 2008
Twitter Weekly Updates for 2008-08-24
:: i just swept my room & collected a huge pile of dust. I guess this is to be expected when you live under the shadow of an active volcano #
:: i dont want to complain but i really wish people wouldnt give me meat and then laugh when they realise. Its very rude :/ [...]
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Sunday, August 24th, 2008
Twitter Weekly Updates for 2008-08-24
:: i just swept my room & collected a huge pile of dust. I guess this is to be expected when you live under the shadow of an active volcano #
:: i dont want to complain but i really wish people wouldnt give me meat and then laugh when they realise. Its very rude :/ [...]
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Friday, August 22nd, 2008
:: i just looked in my mirror …
:: i just looked in my mirror to see the car behind doing a 180 spin! Home safely in 10 mins after a 6 hour drive. Zzzz
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Friday, August 22nd, 2008
:: guatemalan customs arent th…
:: guatemalan customs arent that bad. Im @ the border renewing my car permission & everyone is very helpful & no one is asking for bribes
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Tuesday, August 5th, 2008
My New Spanish School
Day 322
Quetzaltenango, Guatemala
I’m on day 2 of my Spanish language lessons and I’m quite happy with my progress. It seems I haven’t been quite so lazy after all and have been slowly absorbing the language during my time in Mexico. At least that’s what I’m telling myself.
My teacher Rosario is a cute little lawyer in [...]
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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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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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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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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 [...]
