Month Seven Recap

Where We’ve Been

We’ve spent the whole month in Lake Atitlan, Guatemala.

The Highs

• The spectacular view from our apartment.  Even after a month, you don’t get over it.
• Hosting our first World Tour visitor.  I hope we have more :)
• Throwing together an awesome Thanksgiving dinner party at the last minute with our neighbors.  Not the same as family, but lots of fun.
• Completing my Reiki Master training.

The Lows

• Not teaching any yoga while we were here.  This community seems like the perfect place to teach – but that’s what everyone else is thinking, too.  The town is saturated with yoga teachers and classes, and no one was interested in what I had to offer.  Hmm.  If this teaching yoga on the road thing is going to happen, I’m going to have to figure out a better plan.
• A mini panic about planning for New Zealand and Australia.  They are expensive countries (especially compared to where we’ve been for the last 4 months), and I started freaking out about our budget and how much time we could afford to spend there, etc.  In the end, I think we have a very suitable plan that has us moving a little faster than we originally thought, but gives us enough time to see and do what we want.

Things I’ve Learned

That I’ve learned more about reiki is a given.  But I also have a few other new hippy-dippy energy work skills under my belt from my training, and John learned a few things as well.  We are definitely becoming more interesting people.

I think we’ve both realized that Guatemala really is one of our favorite countries.  I always wondered if we loved it so much because it was our first big trip together, not because it was really that great.  Nope – it’s that great.  Everyone is so nice,  it’s stunningly beautiful, the Spanish accent is easy to understand, the food is good, and everything is inexpensive.  We’ll be back for a third time, I’m certain.

What’s Up Next

On December 1st we’ll be bussing up to Tikal in the north of Guatemala to visit the Maya ruins.  From there we make our way through Belize for a few days, fly up to San Francisco for another 24 hour layover, fly to New Zealand for 10 days, and then we will finish up the month (and the year!) in Australia.  Whew – that’s a lot of travel!