April 10, 2004

• Hey-ya personas!!

  
  

  Just wanted to, ahem, write about our morning. Jan and I CLIMBED A VOLCANO!!!!!   Okay, I’ll try to calm down.   But it really does feel like quite an accomplishment!! The altitude was several thousand feet, so it wasn’t extremely high, but it was still several hours worth of hiking. But it wasn’t just any old ancient volcano – this baby is still active!!  In the past it erupted big-time and formed big gullies around it, but right now all it does is smoke sulferic smoke. “ALL” it does.   It was pretty wierd to climb up the side of the mountain, which was amazing in itself, because of the deep volcanic ash. We’d go forward two steps and fall back almost the same distance because of the loose ash, it was exhausting to climb it. But get this – even the side of the mountain, the rocks we’d lean on for support, were so warm because of the volcano inside!! GUH, I’m so glad we did it, but I think that will probably be the last time in my life that I attempt to hike a volcano!! Oh yuh, did I mention it was above the cloud layer??

  
  

  Volcanos seem rather normal here though – there’s a big one that smokes on one side of the city of Antigua, and if we leave our windows open the ash from it gets on our stuff inside the room.  That’s a little too close for my liking!!

  
  

  Time for me to sleep, I’m sooo tired!! Ciao!

  
  

  clarita <><

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