Friday, October 24, 2008

Astral travel

We returned last night from Guatemala; a few things about that –

1.) Lago Atitlán easily ranks as one of the more amazing places I've ever been. Hard to make words do it, but: big, very clear lake, ringed around by very steep, jungled mountainside and 3 volcanoes. The best part of the whole trip may have been just the lanchas, the water-buses that run regularly between the lakeside towns, and from which we could watch the lake and awesome shore/mountain roll by.

2.) Antigua is nice. But I am happy to say that it isn't as nice as our new home, San Cristóbal. I'm a little proud of our city for that.

3.) Back to the lake: did you know that you could take a month-long course, including instruction in meditation, metaphysics, and (best of all) astral travel, in one of the lakeside communities? Of course you did! You astral travelers, you.

4 comments:

Daniel Hagen said...

And here I am studying metaphysics at MIT, when I could be studying metaphysics on the shore of Lago Atitlán . . .

Jess + Jessica said...

Our sentiments exactly.

Unknown said...

wow, awesome picture at the top there! and by the way, i love the pictures from the other recent posts - the mechanical bugs and the chicken with cat. do those two really cuddle like that? ridiculous!

Jess + Jessica said...

Xmis (the cat) doesn't snuggle the chickens much anymore. He's big enough that he's not really looking for a mother figure. He does do some really nice cuddling in the basket of dried corn, though.