Guatemala Guatemala
My 2 teens and I, our friend Susan and her daughter Marisol are in Antigua Guatemala—a quieter, emptier Antigua with almost everyone wearing masks. This trip is different because for the first time ever we won’t visit birth family or travel around the country. Swaths of Guatemala have been declared Red Zones and, although we’re […]
Semana Santa photo album
From 2013: Driving to Antigua from the airport, our cab driver told Olivia and me that the most spectacular Semana Santa carpets could be seen on a street on Antigua’s north end called Calle Ancha. The earlier we arrived on Good Friday morning, he said, the better: teams of artists would have started construction midnight on Holy Thursday. Five […]