Michelle, Charlie, me, Damian, Mia
Processiones
carpet-making
St.Patty´s in Utila (to my left is Owen, my roommate)
Toga party in Utila with the French guys
Volcan Pacaya
I hiked to Pacaya, stood on (cooled and hardened) lava, cut my finger on lava, took pictures of hot orange lava, been there, done that. Then went sweaty and dusty to meet up with Damian and his sister and friend at a really nice restuarante where I snuck a quick shower in the restaurante´s bathroom. We listened to some live Cuban music, then met up with Charlie and his friends. Sunday morning I got up and headed to Xela via chicken bus....thats the name for the retired school buses that make a new life for themselves as overcrowded public transport in central america...sometimes hauling chickens on top...in this case it hauled my backpack on top and half my right cheek on the edge of a seat for 3 hours. Actually had to take one chicken bus for 25 cents to connect with the 3 hour chicken ride for 4.50...as I was crossing the street I noticed 3 other backpackers, then a bus screetching to a stop with a man yelling ¨Xela Xela!¨ and the backpackers running towards it, the man heaving their backpacks on the rack on top, so I ran up, threw my backpack on and jumped on with the other backpackers (including a long blonde curly haired bandana-wearing Peace Corps volunteer from Michigan, a Dutch guy and a NYer). Got to Xela and the Dutch and NY guy were headed to same hostel I was, so followed them there. Hostel is 7 a night which includes breakfast, anything off the hostel restaurant´s menu, which is a 4-5 dollar value. Free internet, good atmosphere for meeting other backpackers...in fact, I actually ended up hanging out last night with a girl for once...21 year old Delaware student studying abroad in Mexico. She left today though. Today I´m going to call the guy I know who is a director of a school here and hopefully meet up with him and pick his brain about teaching English or basically just how he ended up here in Xela.
I am now looking for travel ideas, suggestions, and partners for April 13-30 as ex-bff doug has decided he has too many other things to do and won´t have time to take a caribbean vacation. What I´m saying is I need someone to take me on their cruise.
5 comments:
How are brown pants working out for you? I think you were wearing them in all your pics, minus the toga party. Did not do anything for easter except I went to value village and found 1 semi-ok thing. On Sat me, jenn, jed, dae, and tim went shooting in wasilla. my first time shooting a gun - kinda fun but pointless. then went to jenn's to have girl nite but all the boys wanted to stay too so we made them watch Atonement and The Wedding Date, and eat chocolate cake. it was quite humorous. This week at work I'm trying to get in touch we people from last year to collect pics b/c I'm in charge of bear hug day slide show. So that is something fun I work on at work. Christopher's wife had the baby today. Made and ate halibut tacos last nite. That's all.
Appreciate the pix and the blog you're doing. Haven't kept up on the geography part, doing better with the friends part. Get comments from people reading it and 'living thru you'. If all else fails (doug), you can have free couch and food here for the end of April. Sorry I have no cruises to offer. Baseball games, yes.
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i love my brown pants. they are very stretched out, need to wash them. kristen is fast becoming an alaskan woman. fish, guns, snowmachines...
ps i was wearing black workout capris at the volcan
Did Tanner send you his cruise pix? Excellent! They make some of your pix PG :)
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