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''These days, my role as an innkeeper occupies me almost as much as fiction,'' writes Joyce Maynard, who, during the pandemic, hired locals in a Guatemalan village to turn her [...]

CORRECTION APPENDEDMy teenage daughter and I had just trekked up a rocky trail carved into a palm-enshrouded stairway along the Rio Dulce in Guatemala, just a few miles from the [...]

YOU might have thought years had passed since a foreigner had traversed this remote stretch of road in the interior of Guatemala. Here, in Alta Verapaz state, just the sight [...]

Thirty-eight years ago, when I was 20 and traveling in Central America recovering from a broken heart, I met a middle-age American couple who invited me to come along with [...]

WE walked into the village around dusk, but with the fog pouring down the dirt streets, it could have been anytime. It was cold, and I could hardly see across [...]

SOMETHING in my Latin American travels had always been missing -- that rich sense of place bestowed by intimate conversation with local people. Uninspired by the prospect of studying at […]