by Bambi Wineland | Apr 14, 2017 | Adoptive Family Travel, Birth Country Travel, Guatemala, Heritage Journey, Heritage Travel
This year Semana Santa is the week of April 9th-16th (ending on Easter Sunday). Antigua, Guatemala is home to the largest Easter celebration of its kind in the Americas. Thousands of visitors crowd the cobblestoned streets to watch costumed processions, reenactments...
by Bambi Wineland | Mar 28, 2017 | Adoptive Family Travel, Birth Country Travel, Guatemala, Heritage Journey, Heritage Travel
The Shaman ritual I experienced at Iximché (pronounced, EEE shim ché) was one of the most moving experiences of my life! When I arrived at this famed archaeological site, I didn’t quite know what to expect. I was anxious because I had never been to a Shaman...
by Bambi Wineland | Mar 7, 2017 | Adoptive Family Travel, Birth Country Travel, Birth Mother Search, Guatemala, Heritage Journey, Heritage Travel, Our Children
The Birth Mother Search Continues. Last week I wrote about a conversation my son, Jac, and I had while eating lunch over the weekend. The conversation was about Jac being intent on finding his birth mother. As I explained, I have some reservations because it’s been a...
by Bambi Wineland | Dec 7, 2016 | Adoptive Family Travel, Birth Country Travel, Guatemala, Heritage Journey
Last I shared with you I was in the middle of climbing Pacaya Volcano with my family as part our son Jac’s first heritage trip back to his motherland, Guatemala. You may recall, we were scrambling to the top just as I realized the horses passed the tree where I...
by Bambi Wineland | Dec 1, 2016 | Adoptive Family Travel, Birth Country Travel, Guatemala, Heritage Journey, Heritage Travel
Climbing Pacaya Volcano for the second time in a year was no historic climbing accomplishment, but climbing it with my 10-year-old son, Jac — who is from Guatemala, made this climb monumental. So on December 30, 2014, I embarked on one of the most important...
