As a traveler I´m a window person. I´ve rarely flown anywhere when my nose wasn´t permanently attached to that two-foot thick piece of plexiglass at least 50% of the time. Even though I´ve flown across the United States many times I still get a childlike thrill from watching the landscape slowly pass below me. I also like being able to check periodically that we are, in fact, not crashing. Thus I am very familiar with what our vast country looks like from 30,000 feet. It is generally a gradiated checkerboard of browns- taupe, tan, sand, etc. Occasionally there is a small greenish patch around a whitish patched where the topography slopes upward a few thousand feet into a mountain. However from coast to coast the United States looks pretty much the same from the air. Thus, when I awoke at 5am on my flight to Guatemala I knew I was no longer in the US. The landscape below me was comprised of rich green peaks that thrust upwards like choppy waves on a lake.
Considering Guatemala is currently in the middle of its rainy season it is no surprise how incredibly lush and green everything is. In the three days I´ve been here the weather has started sunny and humid and turned into thunder/lightening/torrential downpour by 5pm. Today it was raining by noon. Luckily it is still warm and so as I type this I´m wearing flip flops and shorts with my rain jacket. Tropical rainforest weather I guess. Turns out the cobblestones serve a very good purpose-allowing me to traverse the flooded streets without getting my feet wet.
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