We arrived back at Tia Angie’s house at about 7am after the long ride back from Tikal. We immediately hit the bed for a few hours. Tia Angie’s Kitchen Local store The most exciting part of today was the big reveal of my grandparent’s new house! It’s almost every latino immigrant dream to “make it…
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Desde Guatemala: Tikal, Day 2
We were relieved after existing the sweat box and hopped into a microbus which took us to breakfast at Restaurante Katok. Then we had another hour and a half ride before we reached Tikal so we took a quick break at a little tourist shop: I honestly didn’t know what to expect at the ruins…
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The flight to Guatemala was pretty straight forward. I think this is the first time we traveled without any cell phone signal so I had no idea how we were going to find my mom at the airport once we landed. Exiting the Guatemala airport is like walking down the red carpet at the Grammys.…
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My Abuelito (Gabriel) giving my cousin Angel a “talk” on Father’s Day (2013) :: Bronx, NYC Welcome to the Longology mini series: Desde Guatemala. (“From Guatemala”) For those of you who don’t know my family is from Guatemala. Both my parents & both sets of grandparents were born and raised in Guatemala so I like…
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