So after about 4 weeks of looking for a moto we decided on an Indian assembled bike with a Honda engine. For some reason motos don’t depreciate here and on top of that maintenance is not in the Guatemalan vocabulary, so we decide to buy new.
(a maintenance side note) There is a dirt road […]
We got a fun little break from the coffee shop last Saturday afternoon. There is a guy here whom we all refer to as “chocolate Bob” because back in the day he owned a chocolate factory in Pana. He is from Arizona and moved to Pana 28 years ago when all that existed here […]
We realized we left out pictures of the other half of our house. The other door in our casita leads into our bedroom…and bathroom. Wolf’s wife designed and made most of the things that you can see in this picture. She made the beautiful quilt, and all the pictures and paintings on the […]
We are in the city of Panajachel, it is to the west of Guatemala city.
This is a map of Panjachel a photo from my Rough Guide guide book on Guatemala. (They make good books if you travel.) Crossroads Cafe is given a good review in the book and is at the top right of […]
OK so this is a picture overload….The top two pictures are of the “town square” they set up 5 ferris wheels in front of the Catholic church pictured. This ferris wheel is the biggest one, and the little one to the left of it was “hand powered.” There are two bell towers at the […]
I have been roasting about 3 times a week so far…This is a picture of coffee from the finca we are staying at, La Finca Vega, It is an organic SHB or Strictly Hard Bean, that means it is grown about 5000 feet up and should be super good coffee. The roaster […]
So we got the hook up for a nice smooth ride….an old 1.9 liter toyota van with a nice array of banderas de muchos colores. It’s funny because everyone that watches us sputter up the mountain waves as we pass because their van is well known by many… In Guatemala..you have to specify the color […]
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Here are a couple of pictures of the inside. The shop is super tiny…usually once a day it is packed out and nobody else can fit in, literally. Michael designed the shop for a one man operation so behind the counter is cramped too. There are two tables that four people […]
Our cottage has two doors from the outside, that lead to two different rooms. WE have our kitchen..which you can see in the photo. The people that have rented this casita to us are Germans…so we have a nice blend of Ikea kitchen utencils and colors. We found it quite amusing when we discovered […]
WE have already learned so much since we have been here. Brett had the exciting opportunity to roast about 35 pounds of coffee last week. Yesterday and today, he helped Michael take apart and put the espresso machine back together. It was not an easy task to say the least. Atleast now he […]
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