still on the road

jungle people on a suspension bridge on our way up volcano santiaguito in guatemala. we packed everything but our humility as we set off on a rocking adventure... without knowing how much adventure we would soon boast about
you have to look very carefully, but you can see the natives

charlie's angels, with our friend Rea from switzerland, getting ready to take off from xela on our trek

here is where we set up camp - in the middle of the jungle. here we are drying our wet clothes
we arrived to a gorge about 40 feet deep. we could hear the rumbling of a volcano... which was really a lahar, a mud slide mixed with ash and steaming vapor that came spewing down the gorge like an avalanche and sent mud flying several feet over the edge, eroding the cliff near where we were standing. without knowing how much danger we were in, we stood stunned as our guide said, go. Go. GO!!! we ran down the path pouring rain ankle deep in water and slid down a waterfall all the while the loud rumbling behind our tracks
here is volcano santiaguito, daring another group of people to test their supposed superiority over nature and its awesome power again

Fun times in XELA (Quetzaltenango) - this is where we took spanish classes at casa xelaju, went to the hot springs at fuentes georginas, met some more travelers and ate swiss food at a restaurant called panarama.
amanda, jessica and neil, susie´s (and now our) friend with a gift of adivination. this was taken in san marcos la laguna, where we took meditation, yoga and metaphysics classes and learned about the tarot and the kaballah as well as astral traveling and lucid dreams

Susie's WILD BIRTHDAY (Aug. 8)

here is susie with a life-size blow up doll of someone special to her. the hair is pantyhose, the beard is cotton candy, the shirt says 'hello i am your jungle boy lover' and yes, the doll was manufactured to be anatomically correct. she loves it

to celebrate we went to a guatemalan drag show, where britney spears gave us all he/she had in a whopping rendition of hit me baby one more time

i'll leave you with a sneak peak of the top of non-active volcano santa maria, on a midnight hike with tom. more of those pics to come. now it is off to costa rica, where we'll be dancing with sea turtles on moonlit beaches