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April 11, 2005
Malena, Tyler and Ashley visit
A week ago, Tyler, Ashley, and Malena visited. Five people in our [race]car, we drove the treacherous roads of Guatemala including the altitude intensive road to Atitlan, the 4WD worthy approach to Volcano Pacaya, and two (unseen) speed bumbs at 50MPH. $450 in new shocks later, the Blurple proudly persists.
On Friday night we went to our favorite tiny club, where we met these two random girls who definitely were too cool for us; it was written all over their faces. They were probably high-fashion models who have been trained that smiling is outmoded.
So the next day we went to Casa Del Mundo on the lake.
Yeah, yeah, it was beautiful and all that crap, but more importantly, you could swim to a 55 foot cliff and jump into the lake (might have been 388 feet, we were just estimating). Rebecca, who also shoots for National Geographic, took this picture of me mid-fall. You can see Tyler and Malena on the ledge about to go next. My advice upon surfacing was "clinch".
Of no importance, that night Tyler LOST A TRAGIC GAME OF CHESS TO SOMEONE. The next day we climbed Pacaya, still quite active.
I also took the following picture at dusk. It's 16:9, so clicking this link will launch it in a popup.
Posted by Jeff at April 11, 2005 08:13 AM