Guatemala 2026
The albums do contain a few pictures I got from others. Because I had so many pictures it made sense to split them up into days. I culled through them trying to show as many people as I could. I primarily worked on Lucia's kitchen so the pictures are skewed toward that worksite and the other places I visited. Now that I had 9 albums I needed a website for the 9 links so I threw together this one. Access the albums from the Navbar up top.
Pros Lay BlockWith Betsy's help I was able to identify almost everyone. For sure if a face showed it ended up in the caption. On some pictures with a lot of people there wasn't enough room to display the complete caption.
If you have some pictures send them to me at full size unedited (some editors wipe out the date taken). Once I accumulate more I'll add them to the albums. Text message is best (include your name) but you can email too.I mostly have selfies of myself so it would nice to have some other pictures. Contact info below
We met at the church at 6:00 am and were driven to DIA. We caught our flight to Houston at 10:00am. Our flight to Guatamala City left at 4:45pm. We got there at 7:30. We took a bus to Antigua and walked to our hotel Posada del Hermano Pedro. Got there at 10:00pm.
We had breakfast at 7:00am in the hotel. At 8:10 we walked to catch our bus to ChiChicastenango. We arrived at Hotel Santo Tomas at 11:45. We had lunch and took the vans out to the job site. We hauled all the cinder blocks from the road to the 2 job sites. This was a killer job. Got back to the hotel around 5pm
Breakfast at 7am and headed to the job sites. Got there around 9. Amilcar and Fausto, the leaders of the Pura Vida gave a short talk. We all got to work mixing mortar and laying block. Chuck gave Maco a Colorado motorcycle license plate for his bike. We worked till 4pm and headed back to the hotel.
Breakfast at 7am and out to catch the vans to the worksite at 8:30am. We got to work around 9:30 laying block with the help of Lucia and her kids Maria and Juan. The little kids were playing with coloring books. At lunchtime Maria a friend of Maco came to the worksite to sell her crafts.
We walked out our hotel around 8:30am to see the world-famous Chichicastenango market. We visited the 2 churches that face each other across the plaza and the Gucumatz Arch. After lunch Ken Fong gave us a tour of the colorful Chichi cemetery on a hill behind the city.
Arrived at the Rosario School around 9am where the kids put on a program for us. We entertained the kids with bubbles, stomp rockets and a parachute. We left at noon and had lunch at the Lemoa Methodist camp. We spent from around 2pm to 4pm distributing powdered milk.
We got out to the work site at 9am and layed blocks all day. This was our last work day. Betsy Keyack said a few words in passing at each site and Robin Peterson gifted blankets to Angelica and Lucia. We finished all the block work on Angelica's home and 1/2 the blocks on Lucia's kitchen.
We had breakfast and got the bus to Antigua at 9am. We stopped at a cool rest stop with the mountains in the background. Arrived at the hotel Camelias Inn in Antigua close to 1pm. Rooms weren't ready so we all took off to find lunch and go shopping for suveniers. The rooms were ready around 4.. We headed out to have a nice dinner around 6:30.
We got up at 6am because we had to get on the road to Guatemala City because the traffic is so bad. The hotel prepared bag lunches since we weren't able to have the breakfast buffet. We left Antigua at 7am and made it to the airport around 9:11am. We checked bags and went through immigration and then walked to our gate. We had a couple of hours to kill. We left Guatemala around 1:30pm. We had a layover in Houston where we went through customs. We landed in Denver around 10:30 and were back at the church at 11:45pm.