Antigua

This is a really beautiful Colonial City but I have run into a bit of bad luck and am ready to get the hell outta here. In the past three days I have figured out a way to get attacked by bed bugs, get a bad cold and have some sort of problem with my eye that requires drops of steroids into my eye. I was in the jungle for 2 weeks and barely got any bug bites then get here for this crap. Oh well. Yesterday I decided to push through all of the ailments and climb Volcan de Pacayawhich is an active volcano right outside of Guatemala City. Surprisingly it was a pretty tough climb but there were many people up there who probably shouldn´t have been. Like the 70 year old woman in my group. As we got close to the top, the wind picked up enough to throw me off balance a few times. Combine that with the volcanic rocks sliding out from under my feet and it made for a difficult climb. We got to the top just as the sun had set and unfortunatley there was no lava flowing but you could see the lava and fire right below our feet and feel the heat. You can bring food up there and cook it on the rocks. At one point I reached down to pick up a hot dog and heard a snapping sound and realized that I burnt a whole bunch of hair off of my beard and some off the top of my head. Now I may have to shave and get a haircut to even it out a little. We hiked back down in the dark which was a lot of fun.