by Sarah Jervis | Apr 11, 2020 | Our Journey
San Marcos is a pretty lake side town with dual identities. The Mayan community of fisherman & farmers, who have been here since the beginning of their time and the travellers who come here seeking a ‘higher sense of being’. Believed to be a place of...
by Sarah Jervis | Apr 2, 2020 | Our Journey
Bruce behaved himself for the rest of the day. Passing along the mountain side towns, they all started to blurr one into another, as thoughts of how Covid-19 is causing the world to shut down. We’ve just had word that Whistler & Blackcomb mountains are...
by Sarah Jervis | Apr 2, 2020 | Our Journey
Feeling a little antsy about the virus and hearing of the border closing, we are keen to get to San Marcos asap. We left Lanquin gas station at 8am, just in time to sneak through the first part of the road works, but were stopped for a half hour at the next. Climbing...
by Sarah Jervis | Mar 29, 2020 | Our Journey
At 10pm last night the music & lights went off and the gas station fell into darkness. The next morning when chatting to the gas station manager about getting over to see Semuc Champey, he recommended we take a private vehicle and that we could leave the truck...
by Sarah Jervis | Mar 28, 2020 | Our Journey
For some reason I’m in the habit of waking at 3am, it could have something to do with that gin & tonic and going to bed early. Opening the computer I spent an hour editing photos before falling back to sleep till half six when I woke to the sound of a tuk-tuk...
by Sarah Jervis | Mar 26, 2020 | Our Journey
All we’ve heard about border crossings is that it’s a big confusing, time consuming mess. So far, touch wood, each border crossing has been a piece of cake. Even with our very limited understanding of Spanish, which sounds different each country we pass...
