Long time away

So the Internet in El Salvador is really slow, but things are awesome and we are heading to Leon, Nicaragua for Christmas and New Years. We're having a great time surfing and swimming in the Pacific. Cycling has been a little hot and mainly flat. I promise to get up some good stuff from Nicaragua soon!
peace and love

San Pedro, Guate +Volcan Santa Maria+Side trip to Chiapas, MEX

Water Taxi crossing Lago Atitlan

Best rum EVER!

Lots of rain, like end of days

The Thatch roof used to be 10ft out of the water, in the last few weeks the lake rose almost 3m or 10ft, People are trippin

Our cheap ass hostal for 2usd per night

Our lives are good

Broken local back pack forced me to carry gear like the locals



Patriot, a person who loves guatemala and fights for its well being

WOW!

Some holy day fiesta in Quetzaltenango, Guate.

Jason "cool breeze" gettin some grub



Jeff checking out the scene

The Ruck being cool

Craig about to summit Volcan de Santa Maria

almost 14,000 ft

We have climbed most of those, fuego the last on the right

Evangelical wailers at 14,000 ft

Cows too

Good lookin crew, sorry about the chop craig

One of the most active volcanoes in the world just d0wn there

I just stared for so long

Life is good huh?

These were catholics we think they were having a religion battle with the others. None of these idiots brought up food or water, we offered it to them and they freaked like they were so dehydrated, no joke almost 14,000 ft. If this mountain was in the states it would be one of the highest in the continental.

spoils!

Cool Breeze, enough said

On a bus to mex., we were getting new passport stamps. This dude was chillin in typical clothing

Rockin the back of a truck, we met a swiss girl that is going to join us on bike

The mountains mark where guatemala begins

Protest and strike of taxi and bus drivers stopped all traffic in Comitan, Mex. so we ruled the streets!

Learned how to make bread, in fact ROCK the bread.

good dinner in San Cristobal posada 5.

left to right: Craig, Jeff, Mike, Virginia, Cool Breeze, and New crew member Sonia.

Huh?

Craig was needing a guitar so he got one, and at the hostal huge jams!

Craig has been a big hit in Guate because of his curly hair, ooh Colocho!

Best runaway jam ever!

What a G!

Nice street art in San Cristobal, it says "your system makes me feel bipolar"

Zapatista anti capitalism signs in San Cris

check out the picture of an indiginous woman choking the soldier!

Great vibes in San Cristobal de las casas

Pics from Antigua to Panajachel, Guatemala +volcan de fuego

dudes too many photos but I just could not erase em.

Craig checkin out his rig with 0 km

Cool Breeze looking on

Antigua line up

After getting lost on Volcan de Fuego we make camp



Mid climb camp water collection on fuego

This cat straight trippin

camp on fuego

crater views

The red is volcanic rock slides

Almanecer, sunrise coming

if you look close you can see city lights from antigua

Light coming


On Fuego looking at Volcan de Agua, which we climbed the week before but crime is high there so we had no photos as we did not want to get robbed.

Nice wild flowers

Are you seeing this?


Clouds a blowin

Yea!

The light was changing every 2 minutes

Erruption on Fuego

The groud was shaiking

Hernan Cortez?

Nice summit hero pose

We felt like gods up there

Covered in burrs and yes it was cold, Brrrrr!

The colors were nuts!

Volcano shots

Frickin cold!

Just as the picture was taking the volcano errupted and shook the ground, what a rush.

This pic does almos no justice but this slope is almost vertical. If you fall you die for sure!

Jeff in the lush greenery

Craig reminded of Oregon

Jeff sober?

Dirty as hell

Walkin down the river bed

Funeral procession

Our digs thanks to Padre Nelson at a catholic church

Janky ass ferriswheel

Part one of the land slide problem, CORN

Two handsome dudes

Virgin in a random place

Our gracious host family mother teaching us how to make tortillas. They thought it was so funny men would want to make tortillas, little did they know we blow up the kitchen

notice my clothes drying on the edges

The fam chillin, the dad travels to the capital every working day, he is a butcher and round trip can be 6 hours, also they ate almost no meat.

our new family

the kids

There was a road here right?

you can see where it ends and where it was on the other side

Lots of landslides

another

Huge landslide from june just getting cleaned up but another happened this day just ahead.

Foot bridge to cross the landslide just outside of panajachel, Guate

This landslide was huge and moving a bit but we were freezing and had to cross with bikes it was intense like the party at the campgrounds!

Just after we crossed

Serious adrenaline

different landslide just below

In Panajachel the river is eating the city away, that is a small market

In pana we stayed with some awesome cyclists who had chickens. Thanks Matthew and Nancy!

Pana view of a waterfall, so much water it was nuts

Craig maxin by the carnival

Church in pana