Guac, Corea, Volcan

FIRST POST!!! Tara and I are running around Central and South America for the next eight weeks or so. We´re gonna blog a bit to stay in touch and share the journey.

While we discover amazing things about Guatemala every day, sometimes the basics tell the best story. They grow a lot of avocado here so you can get it or guacamole at almost every meal. It is soooo good.

Fun night on Tuesday. We went to a small Korean restaurant (Corea in Espanol) and met some really cool people. The place had four tables and maybe 14 chairs to go with the five tables. It was called Veronica´s and I assume the lady who acted as hostess, chef, and busboy was Veronica. She had a fridge, a sink, a two burner gas stove and a couple shelves of plates and cooking gear...and a cooler full of beer, soda and shoju. About half way through the meal, two Korean students showed up, and then a couple from Norway, and some guys from the Netherlands and the UK. Great crowd. It was one of the Korean guys´birthdays and the lady went and got him cake from another place. They taught us how to pour and drink shoju. Pictures coming soon.

We´re off to a hike/tour of Volcan Picaya, one of the three live volcanoes in Guatemala. Rad.