Day’s 274 – 282. 29th April to 5th May. Marooned at Passaj-Cap. Guatemala.
Day’s 252-259. Tuesday, 7th to Tuesday, 14th April. San Marcos, Guatemala.
Day 248 & 249. Sat. 4th April, 2020. A little bit of Guatemalan history.
In the last blog Jen gave an insight into our immediate community. I’d like to extend that to take in some of the country’s more recent history. While we feel completely safe here now, it hasn’t always been so peaceful. The following is a cut-and-paste from Wikipedia :- A civil…
Day 243 – 247. Thurs. 2nd April. Guatemala.
People are getting restless, us included. However there’s not a lot we can do. A couple of days ago Jen & I went to town to buy some more supplies. What an experience that turned out to be. The property is located on the side of a hill between the…
Day’s 236 to 238. 24th March. Camp Pasaj Cap, Guatemala.
While there is not too much to write about brother Ash suggested we put some pics in of our surroundings. Jen here, briefly. I will just write little bit. We seem to be entertaining ourselves reasonably well, so far. Amongst the group we have organised Spanish conversation classes. I have…
Day 234. Friday 20th March. Pasaj Cap camp. Guatemala.
There is a group meeting this morning at 10.30am, for the Overlanders. The objective, to establish a food supply source and chain. The group attending amount to approximately 20 people but others who are/were fly-in-fly out tourists on site, also attend. As yet we don’t know what supplies we can…
Day 232. Wed. 18th March. Pasaj Cap Campsite. Lago Atitlan. Guatemala.
This morning we are assessing our new situation. We are in ‘Lockdown’ in Guatemala. Even if we chose to make a dash for it there is no guarantee we would get back to NZ with more airlines closing down operations and border restrictions hardening. Realistically there are massive complications for…
Day 230. Monday 16th March. Semuc Champey to Coban. Guatemala.
Day 228. Saturday 14th March. Tikal to Laguna Las Pozas. Guatemala.

“Mission Control, we have gremlins in the electrics”! Nothing electrical would work in the living quarters, apart from the fridge which was being temporarily run off the cigarette lighter socket!!! Trying to find the reason was causing major confusion, so Jen said, “lets rewire the whole thing”. With no soldering…