“Traveling Through Guatemala with Granddaughters,” by Mark D. Walker

“Traveling Through Guatemala with Granddaughters,” by Mark D. Walker (Guatemala 1971-1973) is part of The Yin & Yang of Travel Series and was published by The Wanderlust Journal.

Although Walker took his granddaughters to the Peace Corps site where he met his wife, this story is about more than what happened over fifty years before. According to Walker,

“Over the last fifty years, the why and where I travel have changed radically. In 2013, my wife Ligia and I took two of our three children, along with their significant others, to Guatemala to reintroduce them to the country they were born in and to their extended family. We covered a lot of ground, as my children spoke fluent Spanish and were already global trekkers. But ten years later we had eight grandkids, some of whom only spoke English and had never traveled outside the continental U.S., so Ligia and I realized we had more work to do and that we needed a new travel list for the grandkids.”

This trip would include introducing their granddaughters to the Guatemalan side of their family. And instilling an appreciation of the country’s complex history and culture as well as such exotic places as Lake Atitlán, in hopes that they’d return. And the trip did produce a “ List for Traveling Abroad with Grandchildren.”

Click here to read: Traveling Through Guatemala with Granddaughters – Wanderlust

If you like this story, Walker has new book, The Guatemala Reader: Extraordinary Lives and Amazing Stories. Walker is a member of the Peace Corps Worldwide Advisory Board. You can learn more about his work at : Million Mile Walker