Michael Sherer

Tijuana Jones and the Land Rover

Part Three: Four Pigs and a Land RoverOver the bridge and once through Gualan, there was a twisting and good condition two lane road that winded its way towards the nearby (ten miles) border of Honduras. Unlike most roads in...

Four Pigs and a Land Rover: Day 2

We were passing everything but gas stations: the 3.8 litre V-6 moved the Beige-Bomb through the underpowered Toyotas and the smoking diesel trucks up one hill and down another, as a barracuda swimming through a school...

The Frente Nacional Lucha

The riot police took up their positions early in the morning, with ten black uniformed troopers on the steps of the City Hall. Two had shot-guns fitted with gas canisters and one carried an AK-47. A...

Four Pigs and a Land Rover

The idea of a road trip had been percolating amongst four or five of the Centrum Silver attendees of the daily happy hour at a bar in Antigua known as Ocelot. The owner, Shaun Griffiths of Wales, had watched...

From Houses To Homes: Part Two

It’s been said that there’s over a million ‘houses’ in Guatemala built of cornstalks, cardboard and anything else that can be recycled. When the seasonal rains come in May and the rivers rise...

From Houses To Homes

Through the small coffee farm and the banana trees is the first section of a 200 ft steep and rutted path that leads to three small crudely built cabins, home to over a dozen people. Last week the middle...

Hamburger Helper?

Lean, ‘finely textured’ meat, processed from unmentionable parts of cattle and now known as ‘pink slime’ isn’t found in Guatemala unless it’s found in an imported food section of a specialty...

A Man and his Bus, Plus

“This is the most famous house in all of Antigua” he said, pointing out the right side of the open-windowed Combi. As with many of Antigua’s colonial style houses, the color was sort of...

A Man and his Bus

Antigua, Guatemala’s premier tourist attraction is famed for several things: the ruins of over thirty churches, the world’s largest celebration of Easter Week with colorful processions and the sawdust street confections known as alfombras. Tourists...

Get Your Spear Here

The purple satin bunting that’s displayed from many a window all around Antigua perfectly matches the color of the blossoms falling from the jacaranda trees, as winter or a reasonable facsimile thereof fades from the Land of...

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Tijuana Jones and the Land Rover

Four Pigs and a Land Rover: Day 2

The Frente Nacional Lucha

Four Pigs and a Land Rover

From Houses To Homes: Part Two

From Houses To Homes

Hamburger Helper?

A Man and his Bus, Plus

A Man and his Bus

Get Your Spear Here

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