each day is a growing smile

Given the right state of mind, in the progress of life and movement from day to day everyone feels connected to the core of themselves in a more intimate way than the day before. Socrates, know thyself, all that.

Some travel to run away, some travel because they don't know how they're running away, but I travel because I want to examine myself. My hopes are that Guatemala will give me a reason to hold on to the center of myself. In all the times I have travelled before, none have felt so pure as this trip. So with Christina's hand in mine and 7 other Australians and Brits, I want to breathe in every second. To open myself in a new way, to understand the people and origins of culture in Central America. From La Frontera of Mexico to the Aguila Islet, Latin America is one race separated only by the stress of modernization, translated tribal feuds into corrupt forms of democracy, and modern country borders that claim a name rather than an origin. I intend to see the beginning, the source of life in the vast landscape that make up the true and first Americas. Today begins our travels up the Ruta Maya. Today marks a new understanding of why human consciousness has taken such a strange and dark turn away from the simplicity of existing as humans have since the beginning. Today begins the journey to the source of things.

Cuidense,
Miguel