Flores to Tikal

A beautiful morning and time for breakfast

Walking over the causeway to Santa Elena and through the market

Saying goodbye our hotel and street

Moving on to Tikal!!!  A bus ride north to the jungle and the Mayan ruins.  

Our new room for 5 days .....swimming pool and all!

We really are in the jungle!  As we were walking to dinner, we got to see monkeys, monkeys monkeys playing, chasing, breaking limbs. A first time for me to see wild monkeys!!!!  There were probably 8 at least.

Our young waitress at dinner, Marisa

Another first,  sleeping in a bed with mosquito netting!

October 16, 2018 Guatemala here we come!!

My sister, Suzanne and I met up in Dallas and barely made our connection to Guatemala.  Heavy rain in there caused us to first circle, then to abort our first attempt to land, circle again before we landed an hour late in Guatemala City. We grabbed a taxi to a small hotel close to the airport for a few hours sleep.

Up at 3:15am again and to the airport to fly to Flores, a small town on an island in the state of Peten.

And to our hotel....the white one...3rd floor room with nice patio

Suzanne met a young man, Jose with a boat so of course we spent the afternoon on the boat.

We saw iguanas

We climber to El Mirado to see the island

Suzanne went went for a swim

We cruised around the edge of San Miguel...

We went to his aunt's for lunch and motored back to our hotel.

Tomorrow to Tikal!!

California and home

Of course, saw the elk at Prarie Creek

Spent the night at Redwood Coast Cabins and RV Park near Eureka

We went to the Samoa Cook House for breakfast

Drove around the historic district in Eureka

And then we meandered down the Avenue of the Giants

The lovely Giants 

The Julia Morgan memorial fireplaces in the Women's Grove

And nearing the end of our 12 day, 1600 mile trip

Meandering down the Oregon Coast

First stop Tillamook Cheese

First camp on the coast in Cannon Beach at Sea Ranch Campground and Stables

And the famous haystack rocks and Needles

Wow, a steam locomotive

A stop at Yaquina Head and the interpretive center and lighthouse near Newport.

Camped near Florencs at Tahkenitch, a US Forest Service campground.  First time I have seen the tentsiles (a tent that hangs between trees) check them out on line...

On past Cape Blanco

And on past the Brookings Fire....air filled with smoke....and back into California