Wanderism Travel

The sun has been down for about an hour and a half and the temperature has dropped to a comfortable 30ºC. Palm trees rustle in a light tropical breeze as I walk down a dirt road, drawn, like a moth, to a bank of floodlights interrupting the night. Parked alongside the road are so many [...]

Continuing From Part 1
Despite it’s amenities, San Pedro is still a genuine Guatemalan town. Walking up the main town road from the lake you’ll discover that the higher you go, the more traditional San Pedro gets.
At the top is the real heart of San Pedro: The ‘Mercado’ (market). Some visitors never make it here, [...]

I’m in a small water taxi — a lancha — bouncing across Lake Atitlan in the highlands of southwestern Guatemala. Surrounded by Maya women wearing traditional colorful skirts and blouses, I do my best to blend in with the bicycles, sugar cane, bags of potatoes, and appliances. The women giggle at my flowery shirt and [...]

I used to always travel with a small rubber ball. Along with a piece of cord and some liquid soap, these three pieces of gear were the trifecta of doing laundry on the road.
But while the soap made suds and the cord worked as a clothes line, the rubber ball often failed miserably as [...]

I’m currently on Caye Caulker, a small bar of sand off the coast of Belize. Due to intermittent networking issues, my posts will be brief and to the point. Longer posts about my experiences in Central America will follow in a couple of weeks.
If you travel, you know that getting connected can be difficult. Whether [...]