Antigua, Guatemala

Day Twelve - Feb 11, 2024

Tonight's Lodging: Maria’s Loft

Today's Weather: 79°F and clear

High Point: Theresa’s haircut gamble worked out splendidly

Low Point: Going through contortions to get the Super Bowl to stream

Touristic Events: Santa Clara Cafeteria and Bakery, Twisted Scissors, Antigua Brewing, La Bodegona, the Super Bowl over a VPN

Travel Tip: Getting your haircut at your vacation destination offers the opportunity to get to know some locals

Miles By Foot: 4.6

Daily Didactic

Determined to continue branching out, this morning’s breakfast walk headed south along a thankfully quiet treed street, past Sanctuario San Francisco el Grande, and eventually lead us to the Santa Clara Cafeteria and Bakery. We are getting better at finding places with more Guatemalan customers and lower prices. This spot sported a beautiful rooftop garden and the largest portions we’ve stumbled across. Not that portion size generally correlates with quality, but in this case it did. Eventually we carried our leftovers home and headed off for our only real goal of the day, securing Theresa a local haircut.

Theresa’s Twisted Scissors experiment turned out to be positive and culturally rewarding. Her cute new bob was delivered by a couple of wonderful locals who schooled her in Antigua present and past. “Haircuts en route” has just added itself to our lexicon. Brian could use one, but his “local” since the pandemic has been Theresa and her gear is at home.

We absolutely honestly headed to Antigua Brewing for their salads (we know it sounds like Playboy magazine for the articles) and then to the grocery to prop up our “dinner at home” provisions. Somewhere over the course of the day, our friend Todd reminded us that the Super Bowl was today. We returned home and went through the Rube Goldberg process of getting American sports streaming on an iPad attached to a local TV. It wasn’t pretty, but eventually delivered an excellent football game. Our first of the year. :)