Michael Sherer is a Viet Nam veteran and constant traveler throughout the back roads of Central America. He's also an ex- charter boat captain and ruby miner, with a taste for panama hats and unusual stories.
Guatemala, long rated amongst the poorest nations in Latin America, is a giant recycling event in itself. 80% of the cars imported into this country the size of Tennessee are used. School buses from the United States are recycled...
Outside of the faded blue stucco building and set in the worn concrete sidewalk are three inch long letters made of brass. The name Frener is kept polished by the daily crowds passing by #10 on 5th Avenida Sur...
There’s a living remnant of the past that lives in a house that doubles as a museum, a few blocks away from the central plaza of Suchitoto. This artists’ colony, located an hour or so northeast...
There’s a colonial jewel hidden located some 60 kilometers, give or take a few, north east of El Salvador’s glossy capital, San Salvador. The road signs don’t all agree but the highways are...
A prodigy was born in Havana on the cusp of the Cuban Revolution. After Castro ousted Fulgencio Batista on January 1, 1959, young Guillermo Mirabel Ipsan’s future changed dramatically. There were family members on both sides...
I watched one of my neighbors lovingly washing his car earlier this week. The windshield was cracked, the paint oxidized and beyond the redemption of any brand of car wax known to man. There were dents and scrapes from one...
At 8:30 in the morning, in the center of Antigua, the lobby of the local bank branch known as BAC was crowded. The manager, three ATM technicians and two shot-gun toting guards kept the curious away. The...
In this case, there’s a small butcher shop open seven days a week, located in Antigua, Guatemala. Jose de Jesus Garve has been manning his shop for thirty two y ears and if the red flag is...
The fog-shrouded horrors of Hole #4 were finally over and the course took a turn for the higher elevations and back towards the clubhouse. La Reunion’s course nomenclature follows the Maya tradition of 18 months...
“A Cinderella story, out of nowhere, a former greens keeper and…” Carl Spackler, aka Bill Murray, perennial clown at the AT&T Golf classic at Pebble Beach, quoted from what many believe to be the...