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Spending time in the mid coast of Maine has given us the opportunity to explore new places in Maine. On Wednesday, we ventured out after a relaxing, slow paced morning, onto country roads with brilliant rhododendrons blooming everywhere. Our first stop was to be a hike in the Lincolnville area. When I looked up theContinue reading “Finding Our Way To Camden, Maine”

You may be thinking lobster – she’s in Maine, they are everywhere!  And you are right.  However, this lobster aficionado is a purist when it comes to lobster.  No lobster rolls mixing the delightful morsefuls of meat with slabs of greasy mayo that deflects the flavor of the crustaceans.  I eat mine whole and aliveContinue reading “On a Journey to Find My First Lobster”

   

It seems as though the older I get the quicker time goes by.  I remember my mother saying that; now I know what that’s like.  Especially when I am enjoying myself.  The month has gone by so quickly and we did very little in traveling out of Antigua. One morning Hernan, our favorite cab driver,Continue reading “Winding Down in our Beloved Antigua”

It’s hard to explain the magical feeling I experience while spending time living in Antigua.  It feels like home, once I enter the city bouncing on the cobbled streets seeing the bright colors worn by the Mayan people.   This is our third year here and I never tire of walking the streets, sitting inContinue reading “Life in Antigua”

we have been coming to Antigua for three years yet never spent more then a night in a hotel in Guatemala City.  It was time to spend a little time in the capital although we had heard so many warnings about the dangers and perils of being in the city.  I am a New YorkContinue reading “A Visit to Guatemala City”

    After our friends left, we had coffee with some friends we knew from last year and met a few other old acquaintances in the park.  We had pizza at San Martin for dinner and called it a night. Saturday morning we made our way over to Caoba Farms.  We bought lots of greatContinue reading “Caoba Farms,Cerro San Cristobal and More”

One of my favorite trips in Guatemala was to Tikal, a large complex of Mayan ruins located in the northern jungles of this amazing country.  Bruce and I traveled there in 2017 by shuttle.  Actually it was a 9 seater van holding 10 backpackers and us.  And it was a grueling 10 hour drive.  IContinue reading “Monkeys, Mayans and Ruins”

Over lunch one day in early October, my two friends, Barbara and Barbara, who I will call Babs, and I hatched a plan to visit New York City just in time for the holiday hullabaloo.   Barbara and I had tried to do this several years ago but it never came to fruition.  We weren’tContinue reading “A New York City Adventure”