30, April, 2022 Five other guys and myself sitting around in a van. We are talking about the production of the show we have been working on and how pleased we are with how it’s going. Kudos to one of the guys, a Swedish man who is the director. Also, I was given a “sitting…
Month: April 2022
(15) We Bought a Van
Shopping in Panajachel Shopping wasn’t so exciting as it all blurred together after a while. Shop after shop, bargaining for the good price and then finding where the place was again that gave you the best price. All the places looked pretty much the same. Eventually, we bought 400 hackysacks, hundreds of ‘friendship bracelets’, 50…
(14) The Compound in Panajachel
The Move to Panajachel We decided that if we were going to get serious about shopping, we needed to move back over to Panajachel from our guesthouse in San Pedro. Panajachel is well known as “a place where ‘Hitmen’ take ‘vacation’”. One old hitman that we met was writing his memoirs and promised to write…
(13) Money, Money, Money!
We were nearly out of money so Donna had Shannon move some insurance policy money from savings onto the credit card. We had to visit the Guatemala City bank to withdraw the money so we could continue shopping. It was, as always, an interesting bus ride as we careened around the mountain roads hoping the…
Sokdee Pii Mai Lao!
Good Luck Laos New Year! Pii Mai Laos is officially three days long but the parties tend to go on much longer stretching a week or more on either side of the actual holiday. The official Don Det Pii Mai Lao celebration starts at the temple, a holy day of prayer. The second day begins…