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Some people decide to end their lives here… with a glass of wine in my hand I decided to start mine…

Road trip California: L.A., San Jose, San Francisco,Sausalito, Carmel and Santa Barbara … the road was long… but it was so much fun… Meeting Sarah and Joey (in San Jose) was amazing… you guys are the best… thank you so much for everything… I had the best time… wish we meet again some time soon… Guatemala is waiting for you guys! Thank you for your lovely words in your picture Sarah!... love ya!

Bonus of the trip… Black eyed peas and U2 concert in Pasadena …

Wish I was still there... driving around... meeting people... taking pictures... drinking wine... wondering... thinking... living...

Thank you all who've asked about me and my pictures... love you flickr friends!

worth it to view On Black

- Now you wouldn't believe me if I told you, but I could run like the wind blows. From that day on, if I was ever going somewhere, I was running! When I got tired, I slept. When I got hungry, I ate. When I had to go, you know, I went.
- And so, you just ran?
- Yeah!

Forrest Gump

"I believe in my land, I believe in his people because they are my legacy"

National Anthem of Guatemala

Happy Guatemala, may your sake
Never be trampled by the tormentor
Nor should slaves lick the yoke
Nor should tyrants spit in your face

If tomorrow your sacred soil
Is threatened by foreign invasion
Free into the wind, your beautiful flag
To victory or death it will call

Free into the wind, your beautiful flag
To victory or death it will call
Since your people, with fiery soul
Will die before becoming slaves

From your old and hard chains
You forged, with an ire-driven hand,
The plow that fertilizes the soil
And the sword that saves honor.

Our fathers fought one day,
Lit up in patriotic burning
And they were able, without bloody clash,
To place you on a throne of love.

That our Nation, in energetic assent,
Gave life to the ideal redeemer.

Your emblem shows a piece of the sky
In which a cloud gets its whiteness
Wretched is he who dares in madness
stain your colors

Well, your brave and proud sons
who admire the peace within
will never avoid the rough battles
if they are to defend their land and their home.

Lying in the magnificent Ande
with two oceans at hearing distance
under the wing of seeds and gold
you become entranced from the beautiful quetzal

Native bird that lives in your seal
protector that protects your soil
hopefully he will fly high
more than the condor and the royal eagle!
and in his wings, raise up to the sky:
Guatemala, your immortal name!

fade diptych ... why not? .... week 3 (52 weeks)... guess there is nothing more to say...