I love hearing about new places built for people, not cars.
Cayalá, Guatemala is a new development with mostly car-free streets, urban plazas, and a mix of residential, retail, and civic uses. The architecture spans traditional Guatemalan, Spanish, and Islamic styles.
And then the monkeys would starve because they’d realize there weren’t actually 1 trillion bananas, but only the promise of 1 trillion bananas that could be produced by a special banana tree that only the dead monkey knew how to grow.
@moseskagan I can't thank you enough for all the wisdom you've tweeted over the years. Seriously.
(I even went back and started re-reading your blog from the beginning—now ~200 posts in!)
The amount of emotional and mental stress you've saved me from is huge. Sincerely grateful.
What's crazy is that American cities will do anything to protect and preserve charming, historical neighborhoods...
But we do *everything* to prevent ourselves from building more places worth protecting.
Isn't this backward?
@pitdesi I did this exact same thing at my bachelor party. Bota Bota was probably the top activity of the trip (especially because it was lightly raining outside). So refreshing after a long night.