Hola todos, como estáis? Been a slow finde in Antigua Guatemala, been quite quiet but honestly quiet is what was needed as needed some time to recharge the social batteries and we have been on the road for nearly 2 months now. Some days you live it large other days you have to regroup and get it together. These were the latter.
Still managed to get some decent sightseeing in. On Friday I looked into booking onto a tour to Iximiche but proved to expensive to do alone and didn’t fancy getting up at 5 for the volcano hike. So instead I had a wander over to the outskirts and have a look at some of the ruins of the 1773 quake. Among them an old church convent which was pretty cool. Friday night was pretty uneventful.
Saturday I decided to go have a walk up to El Mirador de Cerro de la Cruz and Santiago de los Caballeros. It was quite a brisk walk up and you feel it at the top but it has some lovely views of the city. Shame it was foggy as couldn’t see half the volcano that Antigua sits under but yes. Would be hard to walk it. I get to the top and sit down admiring the summit then I get chatting to another tidy Geezer, this time and American hiking enthusiast by the name of Chad. Yes that’s his name and no he wasn’t a “Bro” just a sound down to earth chap. We swap details and meet for beers later. It’s a good chat and he tells me stories of his experience working security in a casino in Iowa. Some proper crazy stuff went down. Today he works remote as a therapist. Funny how things can change. We had a good evening and said we would stay in touch – he had to turn in early as was flying back to Florida next morning.
Sunday rolls round and I decide to go check out a few organic farms that are all the rage on the far end of town. First place has some gold greenhouses but got ignored at the resteraunt part so went to another place 5 mins walk away @cafeesconia and this time sat down and got seen to pretty quickly and was served a lovely breakfast sandwich with some coffee and natural orange juice.
I then have a look round their nature trail and and up chatting to this lovely Puerto Rican girl who was doing painting of the trees etc. had a bit of a chat about the travels and the cool things to see etc and hit it off pretty well. I get her details and see if she’s up to meet later but get ghosted…..ay es lo que hay no? After this I have a look at the ruined cathedral from the quake in town then go for some afternoon cwru o’ gloch and siesta. Later in the night as we got ghosted and my English pal who has just gotten here was having a quiet one it was back out rolling the RNG again and end up back at the vino gaff talking to locals again.
Monday has just been an admin day as suspecting possible issues at the border leaving for El Salvador tomorrow. Needing to get a form that’s impossible to fill out if you came in overland as it’s only online and no option for the land entrance. Could be fun and games let’s see. Ojalame buena suerte! Next stop Santa Ana, El Salvador 🇸🇻 all going well.
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