I’m currently in Antigua, GUatemala, an incredibly beautful city just outside of Guatemala City. We’ve been here as a squad for 5 days and tomorrow my team and team Banah are heading to Mexico! We are heading to a city called Palenque, where ancient Mayan ruins are visited and the Ancient Mayan culture still lives on in the people. We dont know much about what we will be facing, but we have a contact to stay with, so I’m sure everything else will fall into place. Here is a blog written by a fellow racer Ashley Johnson, from the July squad. Her team was in Palneque in July of last year: http://ashleyjohnson.theworldrace.org/?filename=palenqur-at-a-glance
This week I particpated in a race day event against the new June 2009 squad here in Antigua. Because of the turmoil in Honduras they stayed an extra week in Guatemala and it was great to get to know them. It was also great to cream them in the race and show them how its really done!
We also spent a day climbing an active volcano! A group of us got horses for the inital part of the ride, and the views were amazing. We got to take a long ride up and got to see so much of the beautiful country, as well an anothe volcano erupting in the distance. We climbed the second half, and started by funning down a huge hill of volcanic sand. Then came the rocks which we climbed up hoping they didnt all cause an avalanche crushing the person behind us’s ankles. It was challeneing, but really fun. At the top was molten LAVA! we cooked grilled cheese and marshmallows. We felt the heat for sure! After melting my shoes a bit, i slid back down. It was fun and exhilerating at the same time. It was a long day, but a ton of dual squad fun (77 racers went!). Sorry I cant put photos in, I’ll try to do that from mexico if the Internet is better. Love and miss you all!
