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Ellery & Brian are now in Guatemala, scouting a 2010 adventure!  Here is an update we received from Brian yesterday:

Hola from Guatemala!  Ellery and arrived yesterday after a long but pleasant journey.  The flight was a red-eye and we woke to the dawn breaking over a picturesque landscape below.  The Gulf coastline was flat and marshy here, the ocean invading to form lagoons.  As we flew further inland, the coastal flatlands gave way to steadily rising hills, reminiscent of Hawaii in both their steepness and vibrant foliage.  Eventually the hills showed their true origin, as volcanic peaks appeared, cresting the ridgeline.  There were several calderas, collapsed craters that had filled with murky wáter.  We even saw one that must have erupted in the recent past, as the forest below was drowned in its now-cooled lava, bare except for a few adventerous plant colonists, its cráter adorned only with a few wisps of cloud. 

We had a good overview of Guatemala from above.  Farms abounded and the terraced hills spoke the agrarian lifestyle that´s still very much alive here.  As we were landing I tried to ask my seatmate (an old woman who looked uncannily like my neighbor from back home) what was being grown, but she was busy muttering prayers under her breath!  ¨Thank God!¨ she exclaimed as we landed, and I couldn´t agree more.  We were finally in amazing Guatemala…

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