The reason I came here was to go to the ruins so I decided I'd do that day one. I woke up and miracle, my legs did NOT have pain. So I did a nice and easy run and I just felt great. YAY!
When I came back from my run, I ran into one of my roommates I briefly met the day before. "What are you doing today?" "Breakfast and the ruins." "Mind if I join you?" "Sure, sounds good." I took a quick shower, ate brekkie and then after re-organizing and such, we hopped in a collectivo to the start.
Stacy really wanted a guide - I thought it was neat but didn't like the price. Finally we bargained one down - not as much as we wanted to bargain down, but got a tour for 600 pesos for the two of us. He went over his allotted time and having had been an archaeology student, had a TON of great info. He explained the Mayan calendar, and he said the world wasn't ending, it was just starting a new cycle. I didn't think the world was ending either, but I'll toast that! He knew a lot of the specifics about the ruins and we asked him a million questions.
When he was done, Stacy and I ate the delicious sweet mini-bananas and talked for a while, how you talk when you are traveling. You know, skipping that intro bullshit and getting down to who you really are.
And then I sat there and wrote and dreamed and thought. A monkey came within a foot of me. I talked to random people passing. I dreamed.
And I realized, these are the times where you get back to who you are.
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