Jan 24, 2010 - El Salvador – The Finale

Leaving Apaneca we headed toward San Salvador via a park adjacent to an active volcano. ... The park with its garden and refreshment café was a perfect pit stop on our way to San Salvador to pick up the wedding pictures from the photographer’s studio. ... As we headed into San Salvador David told me to be prepared for an adventure. ... We meandered a bit finding the photographer’s studio but with Nata’s telephonic assistance – he used to drive a taxi in San Salvador – we found it fairly quickly. ... As we lifted off above San Salvador over the Pacific and then turned back over the land, I thought about this eventful week as I searched the ground for landmarks I could recognize. ...

Jan 23, 2010 - El Salvador – Part II

Monday, January 11 was transfer day to the small town of Suchitoto, site of Tuesday’s wedding.Monday, January 11 was transfer day to the small town of Suchitoto, site of Tuesday’s wedding....

Jan 21, 2010 - El Salvador-Part I

We arrived at San Salvador Airport on time shortly after 1PM CST. ... I’m not sure it was worth it! Edy’s Uncle Natanael “Nata” soon thereafter pulled up in a rental car and with David at the wheel we headed for Cojutepeque, Edy’s hometown about an hour east of the capitol San Salvador. ... After lunch we dropped Edy’s grandfather near his home in San Salvador and drove to the beach resort town of La Libertad. ...

Jan 20, 2010 - Joya de Cere'n

For those of you have been following our Central American trip we are changing the name to The Route of the Maya. First we had a quick tour of San Salvador - a city of two million people that claims it is the fastest growing in Central America. ... San Salvador is a city of contrast, from the affluent to the eternal poor. ... Our tour housed us in a beautiful hotel across the street from the gleaming new World Trade Center that would make any city proud.For those of you have been following our Central American trip we are changing the name to The Route of the Maya. First we had a quick tour of San Salvador - a city of two million people that claims it is the fastest growing in Central America. ... San Salvador is a city of contrast, from the affluent to the eternal poor. ... Our tour housed us in a beautiful hotel across the street from the gleaming new World Trade Center that would make any city proud....

Jan 19, 2010 - A Letter to Shawn

We would have stayed longer but I wanted to get to San Salvador to find the Sherwin-Williams plant, our old home, your school, and the Sheraton Princes Hotel. ... He asked if we were Americans so I explained that I had work in San Salvador in 1978. ... Who would have guessed – out of two million people in San Salvador and here he comes walking by and I stop him for some other reason!! Rolando, his son, who you went to school with, owns 11 of these high- end restaurants. ...

Jan 19, 2010 - Getting started

Today was a long travel day. We had to be at SFO at 4:40 am, and we arrived in San Salvador after dark, so no photos. ... Our hotel, the Radisson, is very nice.Today was a long travel day. We had to be at SFO at 4:40 am, and we arrived in San Salvador after dark, so no photos. ... Our hotel, the Radisson, is very nice....

Jan 18, 2010 - San Salvador

A friend sent us the following e-mail. Somehow we ended up in San Salvador on El Centro and the street market. ... In San Salvador the busses stop any time and any place to let people on and off. ... It was a zoo.A friend sent us the following e-mail. Somehow we ended up in San Salvador on El Centro and the street market. ... In San Salvador the busses stop any time and any place to let people on and off. ... It was a zoo....

Jan 16, 2010 - The Beach at El Cuco

Our plan was to get settled in our hotel, then tour the surrounding country, but it is so nice here we only want to spend time on the beach and napping in the hammocks.Our plan was to get settled in our hotel, then tour the surrounding country, but it is so nice here we only want to spend time on the beach and napping in the hammocks....

Jan 15, 2010 - To the Beach

We are writing this sitting in the shade in the cabana looking out over El Cuco’ and down a couple miles of gorgeous sandy beach with never ceasing white caps rolling in off the blue Pacific.We are writing this sitting in the shade in the cabana looking out over El Cuco’ and down a couple miles of gorgeous sandy beach with never ceasing white caps rolling in off the blue Pacific....

Jan 14, 2010 - El Cuco and our Hotel

We went to bed for a short time 11:00 to 2:00, then left for the airport.We went to bed for a short time 11:00 to 2:00, then left for the airport....

Dec 1, 2009 - El Salvador

El Salvador is a small, poor country with armed guards everywhere and is by far the least touristy country we have visited on this trip.El Salvador is a small, poor country with armed guards everywhere and is by far the least touristy country we have visited on this trip....

Jul 25, 2009 - San Salvador, El Salvador (Cold Case)

When I arrive at my hotel in San Salvador, I look up where exactly it was in El Salvador that it happened. ... Archbishop Oscar Romero had been murdered by a right-wing death squad while celebrating mass in San Salvador in March 1980 (Roberto d‘Aubuisson, leader of the death squad and founder of the ARENA party, was never arrested and tried before he himself died of cancer in 1992). ... Roosevelt leads straight on to San Salvador’s ‘centro historico’. ... San Salvador city centre is almost choked with ‘commerciantes informales’, the new mayor who has promised to unclog the streets has his work cut out for him, and it is slow going before I finally get to the Plaza Barrios with the Cathedral and the Palacio Nacional. ... Pictures of San Salvador‘s past in the Palacio confirm that, like most Latin American countries, El Salvador was much better off in the 30s and 40s than today. ...