Memories of Guatemala

In no particular order...

• Wild pointsettias
• Chickens running around on the roads
• Ladies balancing baskets on their heads
• Firewood (llena) being transported home on heads or on bicycles--for cooking
• Outdoor sinks
• Thatched roofs
• ¨Chicken buses¨ packed with produce for sale
• Instant coffee
• Tiny sidewalks with huge potholes
• Breathtaking vistas
• patient people
• poverty
• slow internet
• fluorescent bulbs
  
• street food
• weathered, wrinkled, authenic aged faces--smiling through spotty teeth
• Happiness
• Dogs everywhere
• Noisy
• Fear of petty theft
• Tiendas
• Exhaust billows into restaurants (no exhaust regulations)
• The reason scented toilet paper exists--toilets here do not accept toilet paper
  
• Car alarms going off constantly
  
• Blasting car stereos
• Lots of noise
• Brightly painted buses with expressions like ¨Regalo de dios¨(gift of god)