Vida de Paredon: 7 week personal retreat

Travel has taken me again and I've moved from my Antigua, Guatemala, my home for the past 6 months, to a small town on the coast. I'm here now, melting as my body adjusts from mountain temperatures to the 38 degree, 100% humidity of the tropical coast. Horizontal in a hammock is about all I …

Road to Small-town Guatemala

It’s a three hour drive from Antigua, Guatemala to the coastal village of El Paredon, and all of it is downhill. It beings with a teeth-rattling, spine-crunching bounce over the cobblestones of Antigua, the tourist town where the buildings must be painted one of 12 shades of authentic and the cobblestones are continually being replaced …