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"Muy Noble y Muy Leal"   ("Very Noble and Very Loyal") The historic former capital city of Antigua, Guatemala is flanked not just by the symmetrical, forested Volcán de Agua  

"Muy Noble y Muy Leal"  ("Very Noble and Very Loyal") The historic former capital city of Antigua, Guatemala is flanked not just by the symmetrical, forested Volcán de Agua  

Some surprises are in "store" for me   First glimpse of the authentic Latino flavor — instead of Mexican foods back in United States!  

UNESCO helps rebuild the ancient ruins and restore the places long devastated struck by Volcán de Agua in Central America 

UNESCO helps rebuild the ancient ruins and restore the places long devastated struck by Volcán de Agua in Central America 

UNESCO helps rebuild the ancient ruins and restore the places long devastated struck by Volcán de Agua in Central America 

UNESCO helps rebuild the ancient ruins and restore the places long devastated struck by Volcán de Agua in Central America 

Cellphone pictures in my, third Treo  (stylized as Trēo) , the only "smartphone" before the Apple's Era How so so sweet! Almost forgot which year it was I made a month's long trip to Guatemala from Los Angeles. Until now, back at home fumbled out my old old passport to check on the date of immigration stamps. Time flies, that was March, 1998! 

Antigua (means old, former) Guatemala, "once"  served as the capital of the Kingdom of Guatemala,  is a city in the central highlands of Guatemala famous for its well-preserved Spanish Baroque-influenced architecture and earthquake-induced ruins of colonial churches

Façade: my first impressions of Central America in 1990's!  

A cemetery in Central America, at the tail end of 1990's The deathday of my first dog, Ninety (a Border Collie mix), is just 12 days away which I adopted since he was born

A postcard, I did not expect, from a remote memory I didn't get a chance to have a real family, I didn't get a chance to make close friends.

One of the earthquake-prone cities built near fault lines in California--San Francisco, USA Marina del Rey and the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach, that are particularly vulnerable to flooding because of their low elevation and lack of protection from waves

Volcán de Agua in Guatemala A mind once stretched by a new idea will never regain its original dimension

The first hut to the left, a suite villa deep in the Peten jungle, served as my base for my adventure around Guatemala's Tikal National Park, 1998 Archeologists have found a tomb with the remains of a Mayan queen, buried with treasures like jade jewellery and obsidian knives

My first ever traditional food from Latin America in 1998. It made me feel choked up in the tearful way  (Not only it was my first time eating Latino meal locally, it was simply... Picante !) The International Gastronomic Fair Mistura 2012 is set to take place in Lima from September 7 to 16