{"id":158,"date":"2011-01-07T09:40:04","date_gmt":"2011-01-07T14:40:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.blakeboles.com\/travels\/?p=158"},"modified":"2011-01-09T13:50:06","modified_gmt":"2011-01-09T18:50:06","slug":"no-jungle-yes-ice-cream","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.blakeboles.com\/travels\/2011\/01\/no-jungle-yes-ice-cream","title":{"rendered":"No Jungle = Yes Ice Cream"},"content":{"rendered":"

At 7am we dined on our last Guatemalan\u00a0desayuno t\u00edpico<\/em> (typical breakfast) of eggs, beans, and tortillas and bolted back toward Flores as fast as our little mules could carry us. We tipped the guides, ate shrimp tacos with guacamole for lunch, checked into our 3rd-floor hostel rooms, and promptly showered ten days of accumulated sweat, grime, and vaporized mule poo off our bodies. That felt damn good.<\/p>\n

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David Evitt, our friend and former camper & co-worker from Deer Crossing Camp, found us in Flores. He’s working for two years on a low-cost, sustainable stove project with other engineers in Western Guatemala. He, Vince, and Jim planned their route for the next week (Julie and I need to get back soon to run the Unschool Adventures South America trip).<\/p>\n

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A spontaneous Flores parade appeared. To mark our return, assuredly.<\/p>\n

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Sunset from the roof top terrace.<\/p>\n

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And the rest of the day was spent…eating more food that wasn’t beans, eggs, tortillas, canned tuna, canned sardines, and white rice. Here is me enjoying my third ice cream of the day.<\/p>\n

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I counted roughly 30 total mosquito bites over the course of the trip–let’s hope none of them were malarial!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

At 7am we dined on our last Guatemalan\u00a0desayuno t\u00edpico (typical breakfast) of eggs, beans, and tortillas and bolted back toward Flores as fast as our little mules could carry us. We tipped the guides, ate shrimp tacos with guacamole for lunch, checked into our 3rd-floor hostel rooms, and promptly showered ten days of accumulated sweat, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-158","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-guatemala"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.blakeboles.com\/travels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.blakeboles.com\/travels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.blakeboles.com\/travels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.blakeboles.com\/travels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.blakeboles.com\/travels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=158"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.blakeboles.com\/travels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":262,"href":"http:\/\/www.blakeboles.com\/travels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158\/revisions\/262"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.blakeboles.com\/travels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.blakeboles.com\/travels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=158"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.blakeboles.com\/travels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}