Perspectives of a Wandering Geographer

  Here I am on my third trip to Guatemala (I was previously here in 2000 and 2014).   Why am I doing it?   I have several motivations: -          I wanted to try returning to Latin America after that fiasco with my heart problem and stollen camera in Chile last year.   -          I need to be in a Spanish language environment again – otherwise why keep studying Spanish? -          I wanted to get away from the U.S. during this god-awful election.   I’m sick of hearing about it, especially all the blatant lies. Do me a BIG favor and don't tell me how it turns out as I have a bad feeling about it.        -          An article that I read in the Denver Post earlier this year about the school where I am volunteering pointed out that providing good educations for kids in Guatemala will help them find work here as adults instead of migrating to the U.S.   So, it seemed like a positive thing to do to help stem the flow of “ilegales”. -          I feel that so much of my life has