I'm not sure how much to tell you about the horned guan. I had a vague idea of the challenge of the trail to the guan, but I really don't think I fully grasped how hard it would be to see this bird. Now, I debate with myself: "Do I go on and on about how hard it was and will that prevent someone fro...

I'm trying to do the posts about Guatemala in order, but I may have to switch around. I really want to write about the horned guan experience, but that was later in our trip. I think when I finish up the El Pilar part, I'm gonna dive right into the guan. Writing is kind of like dieting. If you depri...

Hello blog readers! Or should I say hola lectores del blog? I am back from my Guatemala birding adventure and am sorting through photos. I want to thank everyone who entered the guest blogging contest. There were many fantastic blog entries and I'm sorry that we couldn't post them all. Be sure to ch...

We spent four months in early 1979 roaming around Mexico and Guatemala in a Ford Econoline van. We were able to get away from work at that time because I was working part-time as a fill-in librarian and Kelly was doing remodeling and other construction. If I remember correctly, we spent about $2200 ...

XOCamp 2 is coming up, January 12th to 16th. It's a meeting for the people who are doing the hard work developing Sugar and deploying the XO in countries like Uruguay, Colombia, Nigeria, and Nepal. It's an important chance for people to get to know each other, and for synergy to happen between diffe...

La semana pasada nos juntamos algunos bloggers de Guatemala al convivio que organizo Erick (quién al final no pudo llegar jaja). Esta vez no llegaron tanto como a la reunión anterior de este año, pero para mi gusto fuimos los suficientes para compartir un buen rato con la gente que escribe blogs ...

I find few interesting articles about Latin America and the Caribbean in either , or The Washington Post on a daily/weekly basis. From my perspective, the latter does a better job covering the region and it is less sensationalistic than the former. The other day, the Post published a very good artic...

Forget Caffeine, take a look at the Monday Morning Headlines..from home and abroad. All of these pieces are from BBC News - Online fraudsters ’steal £3.3bn’ Credit card numbers and bank details are big sellers among hi-tech thieve Hi-tech thieves who specialise in card fraud have a cred...

It was good to read that the incoming Obama administration will probably try to close the prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba ["Guantanamo Closure Called Obama Priority," front page, Nov. 12]. One hopes that this effort will extend to all the secret prisons where the U.S. government has practiced torture...

My day usually starts around 6:30 a.m. It is a gorgeous time here on lake Atitlan. It is sunny and the lake is calm, I enjoy seeing fishermen going to work. As I sip my coffee that is grown here locally I can really appreciate the hard work the coffee farmers do so I can drink an awesome cup of coff...