Moobs on the cobblestones

Nov 12

After seeing just a bit of the countryside and pueblos on some of the trips and bus rides, Antigua relative to Guatemala reminds me of Boulder relative to Colorado.  Both have drum circles in the park, a pedestrian mall with shops, restaurants and tourists,  15 year olds pedaling weed, and mountain bikers zipping through the streets in spandex.  You also find more coffee shops in both cities relative to surrounding cities.   

There are certainly differences between Antigua and Boulder.  For instance, at home I have never seen broken bottles poured into the top of a concrete wall as a sort of “poor man’s razor wire” for keeping the riff raff out.  In Boulder we just put conservative bumper stickers on the cars out front for that function.  And the fat guy on the bicycle in the cheap, tight cotton shirt that I saw here with his moobs bouncing over the cobblestones in Boulder would be a fat guy in expensive, tight spandex shirt with his moobs bouncing over the skree stones on the trail. 

Something else I was surprised to see here  that I don’t see in Boulder is catholic school girl uniforms.  I always assumed those were something that existed far away and long ago and were only used for the box covers of adult videos in the modern era.  Go figure, the past lives on in Guatemala. 

About every third day that clouds at this height would part and you could see the top of the volcano from the house.