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Guatemala 2013
May 28 - June 18

Traveling with the GRACE
(Guatemalan Rural Adult and Children Education)


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May 31 Begin La Antigua end Lake Atitlan

5/31/2013

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Thursday. The day begins with packing, our usual breakfast (eggs and beans - you know how I feel about that) and a quick jaunt down to the mail square to get more cash. We remember our much earlier trips and traveler's checks. What a difference.

We are picked up by a private van hired through the hotels. It is comfortable, easy and safe. Even so we are diverted off the main road to a muddy dirt high-trafficked and jammed one because of a meeting of the OAS.

When in Malaysia with Carsten the van driver and of course Carsten was part of the whole process of getting the photographs. That made it easy on me. This trip I have to grab shots quickly where ever I can with my travel mates joking about me and my camera. I know there are those that think seeing your trip through the lens of a camera limits one's experience. For me it's the opposite. I remember and re-experience it all over and over again. We all have a lens we look at a new experience through. It's just that mine is a camera.  This trip many of my photos are taken through a windshield  or a side window while moving.

I would wave out the window and try to snap the reaction. I love the look on her face as she waves back at me. 

Caught gym time:
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Schools Out......
Ok I am not done explaining why we did not end the day at Mystical Yoga Farm.  It was one REALLY funny adventure - a boat ride over - showing us to our rooms and it dawning not so slowly to all of us that we were to leave - in the rain - on a boat driven by 12 year olds.  Later.



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