Small Mayan village of San Pedro as we are leaving San Marcos
Date: 02/07/2008
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Bags of coffee beans alongside the road waiting to be weighed on makeshift scales hung between two poles (unable to photo weighing process, as coffee pickers all wielded machetes!)
Date: 02/07/2008
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Coffee bushes growing alongside the road
Date: 02/07/2008
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A close-up. I could have picked some if only Juan Valdez wasn't carrying a machete!
Date: 02/07/2008
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This is the narrow road of continuous switch-backs that we had to climb after leaving San Marcos by the lake.
Date: 02/07/2008
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View of the road below and the lake behind us as we climbed over the mountain ridge surrounding the lake.
Date: 02/07/2008
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Snapped this photo from the car window of a woman doing her laundry in front of her concrete home.
Date: 02/07/2008
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Taken through the blurry windshield, but still priceless. A child carrying a bouquet of flowers riding a donkey hauling a load up the mountain, while the Senor chats on his cell phone. "Can you hear me now?"
Date: 02/07/2008
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The facial expressions say it all...
Date: 02/07/2008
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And I complain about sitting at a computer all day!!
Date: 02/07/2008
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The clouds move through this high mountain pass as we leave the lake region.
Date: 02/07/2008
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We have now arrived in Quetzeltenango, called "Xela" ("SHAY-la" by the locals,) Guatemala's second largest city.