Cobán, Verapaz, Guatemala To understand this, you’re going to need a good map. From Todos Santos Bartek and I headed even higher into the Guatemalan altiplano highlands, through endless fog and rocks to a dismal little town called San Pedro Saloma. It took us an hour waiting by the side of the road in Tres [...]

Hola a tod@s, I’m writing from San Cristobal de las Casas, the colonial capital of the Mexican state of Chiapas. Since leaving on the sixth I’ve been following the route that I left off on two years ago: from the Oaxacan coast down to Chiapas. The beach life was good, but the mosquitos are thick [...]

San Cristóbal de las Casas, Chiapas, Mex. “EL CONOCIMIENTO ES UNA NECESIDAD TRAE PAZ Y DIGNIDAD” Hopefully by the time you read this, there should be a new set of dirtyfotos up online. There are several subfolders, be sure to check the bottom of the page. This is thanks to my friend Bartek of Poland, [...]

CHE GUEVARA, EMILIANO ZAPATA AND JESUS H. CHRIST. PRESENTES. Three hours of chicken bus, blasting radio, excessive horn, half pavement, half dirt, half sky, blue diesel thunderclouds hanging over my head, guitar between my knees, trash thrown out the window, climbing out of Huehue shitsville, seventy people in a school bus, three to a seat, [...]

San Cristóbal de las Casas, Chiapas, Mex. What didn’t make it into the last story was exactly where I was staying in Mazunte. First I headed up to this spot called Posada Arquetecto which has a palapa for hanging hammocks overlooking a huge, beautiful beach. It was still on “high season pricing” (Dec. 1 – [...]