I have been working on a toy Voxel Game Engine for some time now and wanted to write some posts about what the engine can do and the steps I've taken in building it. As voxel engines go it isn't very impressive but it's always improving and I have a lot of fun building it. … Continue reading Voxel Engine
I stayed on Lago de Atitlan from December 20th to 30th 2018. Lago de Atitlan is a large lake ringed with volcanoes and mountains. There are towns dotted all around, linked by both roads and regular lanchas (small boats). It is a very popular tourist spot with the most popular towns being San Pedro La … Continue reading Lago de Atitlan
I visited Guatemala City on December 18th and 19th 2018. After Semuc Champey Kate and made our way to Guatemala City. It was the end of Kate's trip so she needed to get to the airport, and I was heading west to Lago de Atitlán. We had a couple bumps along the way including a … Continue reading Guatemala City
I have re-started writing these travel posts, almost a year after returning from the trip. My memory is a little fussy so these posts will mostly be mis-remembered timelines and context for photos. The time I'm describing here took place December 15th to 18th 2018. Hopefully they are still enjoyable! After Kate returned from the … Continue reading Semuc Champey and Lanquín
While work is mostly stopped at this time I recently spent some time working on a simple cross platform 2D game engine. The working name is “Tortuga”. Goals My goal is to build an easy to use code first framework with enough features to develop small, simple 2D games. Tortuga provides an easy-to-use 2D rendering … Continue reading Tortuga
I arrived in Rio Dulce on December 7th to find Eric, Katie, and Jessie waiting for me at the bus stop. Our plan was to spend a few days on sailboats on Lago de Izabal, the large lake that feeds the Rio Dulce. Katie and Eric had previously spent a month volunteering on the boat … Continue reading Sailing on Lago de Izabal
We woke up at 5:00am on December 5th to catch the shuttle to Tikal. Tikal is a massive ancient Mayan ruin comprised of dozens of buildings. The area accessible to tourists is around 20 square kilometers. People lived there for hundreds of years before the collapse of the Mayan civilizations. The shuttle got us to … Continue reading Tikal and Flores
On the morning of December 2nd Leane (the owner of the permaculture farm from my previous post) drove us to her friend Miguel's house. Leane hires Miguel's brother to do construction work around her farm and she is familiar with the family. Miguel is a Mayan man living in a small Mayan village. Jessi and … Continue reading Belize
We woke up early on November 27th, in Livingston, Guatemala, to catch the 8:00am boat to Punta Gorda, Belize. We were scheduled to spend a week helping on a permaculture farm in the jungle near Punta Gorda. The boat was a lancha, nearly identical to the one we took down the Rio Dulce. Needless to … Continue reading Permaculture Farm in Belize
As with previous posts I am uploading this well after the events occurred. I arrived in Rio Dulce in the evening on November 24th, we left Livingston on the morning of the 25th. I have left Antigua! After roughly a week and a half in expensive, clean, tourist friendly Antigua it was time to go … Continue reading Rio Dulce and Livingston
Declan Easton 