My Latest Journey to Guatemala: With a Granddaughter! And a New Chapter for the Million Mile Walker Dispatch, July edition 2025

Dear friends and fellow travelers from around the world, Anna, Mark and our tour guide, Juan One of the highlights of my recent trek to Guatemala with my twenty-one-year-old granddaughter Anna was birdwatching for some of the 700 bird species at the Finca San Cayetano, at the foot of the Volcanoes of Fuego and Acatenango. We saw the colorful, green parrots as well as exotic birds with strange, long tails (our altitude was too low to see the elusive quetzal).    Volcanoes El Fuego and Acatenango By far, the most exciting part of the trip was the 5.7 earthquake that […]

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