After you are done packing for a trip like this, go back through all of your stuff and take away at least half. (thanks Letitia)
Well, 100 bucks and a donation later we learned our lesson...
Everything on the left was in the "valuable" category of things that were shipped home (everyone please cross your fingers on that one. Mom and Dad, be on the lookout for its arrival in Mobile, supposedly in 10-15 days. And feel free to open it up and wash the dirty clothes!).
And those on the right were donated to a local hospital and social service organization (Marge, remember those few shirts I borrowed...Guatemalan children are better off for my having borrowed them!).
So, 25 pounds lighter and now being able to fit everything into our big packs and not be burdened with the heavy day packs on our front, we are ready to start travelling. We're now just waiting for our choloroquin to kick in and make us malaria-proof before leaving the safe areas of the highlands.
Once we leave Antigua tomorrow morning at 4am (ouch), we will be on a whirlwind 3 1/2 tour of Guatemala, a little Honduras and, time permitting, the Yucatan peninsula of Mexico before meeting Margaret in Belize City for a little scuba diving (snorkeling?), replenishing our book supply, and other familial activities -- wine drinking, sarcastic banter, the usual...
Plenty of stories to come...
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