Everyone who reads “Shatter Dark” understands my love of ancient history.

In addition to majoring in Creative Writing and Theatre at the University of British Columbia in the late 1970s, I took a couple of courses in Mesoamerican Art and Architecture. One of them, taken after I graduated, was a fieldtrip guided by Prof. Marvin Cohodas during which we studied numerous ancient cities in Mexico, Guatemala and Honduras.

Attached will be a number of “pages” describing the trip in detail. Fellow tour members are “named” by an initial to preserve privacy. It was the trip of a lifetime. It will be fun to share.

Here is the itinerary:

1981:

Apr 30 – Fly to Seattle. Fly to Mexico City.

May 01 – Mexico City. May Day Parade. Zocolo Ruins.

May 02 – Non-Maya section of anthropological museum.

May 03 – Teotihuacan.

May 04 – Choula. Tlateloco. Pino Suarez.

May 05 – Calixtlahuaca. Teotenango. Malinalco. Teopanzolco.

May 06 – Maya section of Museum. By train to Palenque.

May 07 – Arrive in Palenque.

May 08 – Palenque.

May 09 – Resting in hotel.

May 10 – By train out of Palenque.

May 11 – Arrive Merida.

May 12 – Dizbilchaltun & Cenote. Progreso.

May 13 – Loltun Caves. Labnah. Sayil. Xlabpak.

May 14 – Kabah. Uxmal. Acanceh. Fiesta at Telhalquillo.

May 15 – Resting in hotel.

May 16 – Resting in hotel.

May 17 – By bus to Piste & Chichen Itza.

May 18 – Chichen Itza.

May 19 – Chichen Itza.

May 20 – By bus to Merida. Fly to Guatemala City.

May 21 – Guatemala City.

May 22 – Fly to Flores.

May 23 – By bus to Tikal.

May 24 – Tikal. By bus to Flores.

May 25 – Fly to Guatemala City.

May 26 – By bus to Quirigua.

May 27 – By bus to Copan, Honduras. By bus return to Guatemala City.

May 28 – Fly to Mexico City.

May 29 – Cacaxtla. Texcotzingo.

May 30 – Fly to Seattle. Fly to Vancouver.

Thus I experienced “Marvin’s Mighty Mayan Marathon.” In the pages to follow, you will too.