http://janjanzendaily.com More Money, Less Stress, More Fun Fri, 05 Mar 2010 16:59:10 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en [caption id="attachment_1274" align="aligncenter" width="265" caption="The sailboat I am sailing on to Belize"][/caption] After a week in the jungle of Rio Dulce, I am off in just a couple of hours for a 6 day sailing trip to Belize. Belize is just above Guatemala and apparently at one time was all ... http://janjanzendaily.com/2010/03/05/off-to-belize/ [caption id="attachment_1268" align="aligncenter" width="199" caption="This little girl´s mother died giving birth to her"][/caption] One night while having dinner in San Marcos, I noticed an older Caucasian woman with a young Guatemalan child. Nosy me was trying to figure out the relationship, as there didn´t seem to be a mother present ... http://janjanzendaily.com/2010/03/04/too-many-women-are-dying/ [caption id="attachment_1258" align="aligncenter" width="448" caption="The little house I am currently staying in on the Rio Dulce"][/caption] It seems like a lifetime ago that I was sitting in my place on Lake Atitlan making arrangements for Brenda and Adrian´s trip to Guatemala in February. Now they´re gone and I´m wrapping up ... http://janjanzendaily.com/2010/03/03/how-to-get-what-you-want/ [caption id="attachment_1255" align="aligncenter" width="448" caption="The hot waterfalls at Finca Paraiso"][/caption] Life in the Rio Dulce is another world. It´s hard to believe that it´s the same country as Lake Atitlan and Antigua. It reminds me alot of when I lived on the coast in Ecuador. It´s probably all ... http://janjanzendaily.com/2010/03/02/14-cockroaches-and-a-hot-waterfall/ [caption id="attachment_1249" align="aligncenter" width="448" caption="Part of the Grand Plaza "][/caption][caption id="attachment_1248" align="aligncenter" width="336" caption="Brenda and Adrian climbing up the long, steep flight of stairs beside Temple 5."][/caption] Tikal, the world of the Mayans was our destination on Wednesday afternoon. A 45 minute road trip from Antigua to Guatemala City was ... http://janjanzendaily.com/2010/02/26/tikal-a-lost-world/ Another amazing day yesterday in Antigua. After a leisurely breakfast at our beautiful B&B, we headed through parts of the city we hadn´t yet discovered. We hit the market – the biggest market any of us have ever seen in our travels. It was like a maze ... http://janjanzendaily.com/2010/02/24/the-magic-of-antigua/ [caption id="attachment_1239" align="aligncenter" width="298" caption="The most beautiful church in Antigua"][/caption] Saturday, Brenda, Adrian and I went ziplining just outside of Panajachel. They had never been before and it was a great time. The weather was perfect and we did 8 fabulous ziplines across the jungle. We fed bananas ... http://janjanzendaily.com/2010/02/23/ziplining-teacher%c2%b4s-protests-and-antigua/ There´s nothing like a big beautiful pool filled with sulphur-rich mineral waters that are just the right temperature. Yesterday we left by 8:00 and drove about two hours to Las Fuentes de Georgina. The last 30 minutes of the drive was through beautiful agricultural fields that were absolutely ... http://janjanzendaily.com/2010/02/19/hot-springs-and-big-vegetables/ [caption id="attachment_1232" align="aligncenter" width="448" caption="Making lunch for 420 children"][/caption] This morning Brenda, Adrian and I were on a boat by 8:00 heading to the nearby village of Santa Cruz. We were met by two amazing women who run Amigos de Santa Cruz, a foundation they have created to help out ... http://janjanzendaily.com/2010/02/17/feeding-420-children-every-day/ It´s been quite the busy week. We went to Panajachel on Thursday and Brenda and Adrian were in awe at how different it was from the other two towns they had seen. Yesterday I worked with a couple of clients and in the afternoon we both had massage ... http://janjanzendaily.com/2010/02/13/an-entrepreneurial-spirit-at-9/