From the category archives:
The best thing about coming home after two weeks traveling in Central America has to be the underappreciated yet equally important ability to flush paper down the toilet.
You just never appreciate what you can do on an American waste management system until you’re more than 2,000 miles away from home.
And while there are many other [...]
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DC Blogs is hosting a photo contest and asked for submissions of photos that inspire you. There are many things that inspire me in this world: catching a great baseball game; listening to my girlfriend recite entire passages from her favorite books; saving ungrateful baby birds.
But if I had to choose two things [...]
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El Guapo retired his blog earlier this month. He hung up his famous Guatemalan mustache and became a civilian. Some of his former blog readers are not taking it well:
UberSchatz said…
Yeah. Why?? Damn it! This always happens to me. I find a good blogger and then they quit after a short time of [...]
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Chicks love to blog. They also love to meet other chicks who love to blog.
This was never more apparent than last month when hundreds of them showed up in Chicago for BlogHer ’07, the 3rd annual conference where chicks meet up to talk about boys and have naked pillow fights.
What? They don’t? [...]
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They’re synonymous with “vagina bundles” in England and would protect me from evil Guatemalan thieves. But they’re still fanny packs and I’m pretty sure Johanna would stop talking to me if I ever owned one.
If I were to wear a fanny pack, though, it would be this one, recommended to me by Gen, who [...]
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How much do you know about Guatemala? I mean, how much do you really know about El Pais de la Eterna Primavera?
Sure, you might be smart enough to remember that it’s in Central America, but could you pick it out on a blank map? You know Guatemalans speak Spanish, but can you name [...]
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El Guapo was wrong: Guatemalans love Argentines. Especially our money.
My otherwise amazing week-long trip to Guatemala with The Princess (more on that tomorrow) was capped off Friday night with the discovery that my wallet was stolen. An online check of my bank account activity confirmed my suspicions — somewhere between Panajachel, Solola, [...]
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