{"id":144,"date":"2011-01-01T09:33:48","date_gmt":"2011-01-01T14:33:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.blakeboles.com\/travels\/?p=144"},"modified":"2011-01-08T13:09:05","modified_gmt":"2011-01-08T18:09:05","slug":"long-hot-new-year%e2%80%99s-walk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blakeboles.com\/travels\/2011\/01\/long-hot-new-year%e2%80%99s-walk","title":{"rendered":"Long Hot New Year\u2019s Walk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A green leaf bug greeted me this morning. While experimenting with manual focus on my snazzy new Canon (to capture this shot), the bug leaped at me and I dropped the camera. Nature strikes back. Luckily my camera is a champ and survived with only a scuff mark.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-186\" title=\"IMG_0003 (480x640) (2)\" src=\"http:\/\/www.blakeboles.com\/travels\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/IMG_0003-480x640-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"480\" height=\"640\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.blakeboles.com\/travels\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/IMG_0003-480x640-2.jpg 480w, https:\/\/www.blakeboles.com\/travels\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/IMG_0003-480x640-2-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Julie felt much better, ready for the Mirador trek.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-187\" title=\"IMG_0004 (480x640) (2)\" src=\"http:\/\/www.blakeboles.com\/travels\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/IMG_0004-480x640-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"480\" height=\"640\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.blakeboles.com\/travels\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/IMG_0004-480x640-2.jpg 480w, https:\/\/www.blakeboles.com\/travels\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/IMG_0004-480x640-2-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Vince and Jim enjoyed a good night&#8217;s sleep in the trees.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-185\" title=\"IMG_0001 (480x640)\" src=\"http:\/\/www.blakeboles.com\/travels\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/IMG_0001-480x640.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"480\" height=\"640\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.blakeboles.com\/travels\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/IMG_0001-480x640.jpg 480w, https:\/\/www.blakeboles.com\/travels\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/IMG_0001-480x640-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Today we walked, walked, walked. Others rode, but I preferred to walk. Mules aren&#8217;t my cup of tea, for no particular reason. Here&#8217;s what I mostly saw.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-188\" title=\"IMG_0005 (480x640)\" src=\"http:\/\/www.blakeboles.com\/travels\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/IMG_0005-480x640.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"480\" height=\"640\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.blakeboles.com\/travels\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/IMG_0005-480x640.jpg 480w, https:\/\/www.blakeboles.com\/travels\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/IMG_0005-480x640-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Seven hours later we ran into our first manicured Mayan ruin site.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-190\" title=\"IMG_0007 (640x480) (2)\" src=\"http:\/\/www.blakeboles.com\/travels\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/IMG_0007-640x480-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.blakeboles.com\/travels\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/IMG_0007-640x480-2.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.blakeboles.com\/travels\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/IMG_0007-640x480-2-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>We climbed Mirador&#8217;s second-highest pyramid, <em>El Jaguar<\/em>, for sunset. The international tourist horde joined us.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-191\" title=\"IMG_0008 (640x480) (2)\" src=\"http:\/\/www.blakeboles.com\/travels\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/IMG_0008-640x480-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.blakeboles.com\/travels\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/IMG_0008-640x480-2.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.blakeboles.com\/travels\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/IMG_0008-640x480-2-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-192\" title=\"IMG_0010 (640x480) (2)\" src=\"http:\/\/www.blakeboles.com\/travels\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/IMG_0010-640x480-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.blakeboles.com\/travels\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/IMG_0010-640x480-2.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.blakeboles.com\/travels\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/IMG_0010-640x480-2-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I taught them to play SET.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-184\" title=\"IMG_0011 (640x480) (2)\" src=\"http:\/\/www.blakeboles.com\/travels\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/IMG_0011-640x480-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.blakeboles.com\/travels\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/IMG_0011-640x480-2.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.blakeboles.com\/travels\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/IMG_0011-640x480-2-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Over dinner we conversed with a 9-year-old homeschooling boy who is traveling around Central America with his dad for 3 months. Honestly, what an irresponsible thing to do. How will this child learn anything?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A green leaf bug greeted me this morning. While experimenting with manual focus on my snazzy new Canon (to capture this shot), the bug leaped at me and I dropped the camera. Nature strikes back. Luckily my camera is a champ and survived with only a scuff mark. Julie felt much better, ready for the [&hellip;]<\/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-144","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-guatemala"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blakeboles.com\/travels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blakeboles.com\/travels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blakeboles.com\/travels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blakeboles.com\/travels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blakeboles.com\/travels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=144"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.blakeboles.com\/travels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":245,"href":"https:\/\/www.blakeboles.com\/travels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144\/revisions\/245"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blakeboles.com\/travels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blakeboles.com\/travels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blakeboles.com\/travels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}