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…
Category: L& D Life
(12) Lago Atitlan Adventures
Daily Life Donna would go down to the lakeside to do laundry with the local ladies. To get the water out, they would slap the clothes against the large boulders on the shore. large boulders that were around some parts of the lake’s shoreline. She was surprised one day when she noticed some of the…
(11) All the Colors of the Rainbow
The Bus We had a destination, Lago Atitlan and the town of Panajachel. The busses in Guatemala are a step down from the busses in Mexico which were already a large step down from “the Dog”, also known as Greyhound busses in the US. If you ever wondered where all the old busses go to…
The Spirits are Angry!
After doing some chores around the house, I walked over to the garden Fred and Lea left us to care for and harvest vegetables from. I heard a commotion of people at the top of the little hill and the rice field road. There was white string crossing here and there. Normally, we’ve seen that…
(9) Mysteries in Oaxaca
Mysteries We found Oaxaca to be a nice town. Warm and friendly with musicians playing marimbas, big bass guitars, singing, and ornate churches, It was really like something out of a movie. We quickly found a place to stay with a nice lady in a house with a lovely courtyard full of flowers and a…
(10) Zipolite, “the Beach of Death”
Landing Money was always an issue since we were on very limited funds. We had managed to keep a little back for travel but needed to stay as frugally as we could. Being new to traveling, our lack of experience meant the money was disappearing more rapidly than we had hoped. We had heard there…
(8) Veracruz
Stumbling into… When we arrived in Veracruz, the town was bustling with excitement and it was difficult to find a room. Going from one place to the next, working our way down the list until we finally scored! The place we did find was nice, several floors high with an open center top to bottom…
(7) Inauguration, Crossing & Sand Dollars
When people asked us what we were going to do we told them, “We’re going to sell it all and travel around the world!“ Actualization We went up to Maryland and stayed for a while with Donna’s daughter Shannon, her husband Dave, and their son, AJ. They had a basement den that we could sleep…
(6.5)Three Moments
An interlude in our story There were three particular discussions with my mother I would like to share with you. First, I quit my job at the ad agency because I was passed up for a much-needed raise. I was told I “wasn’t stressed enough”. I told them that not getting the raise stressed me,…
(6) Ashwood, part 6, The End of …
Preparation Cleaning a house to sell can be a monumental task but we set about it with the help of our friend Edmond and others that came and went. Edmond was a rock as he tirelessly did whatever needed to be done! Ashwood looks to be fairly small from the front, but I can assure…