QuaxiDanto

QuaxiDanto: If you speak K'ekchi, you know what it means, but don’t understand. K'ekchi is a Mayan dialect spoken in, among other places, Belize. I made several extended trips into the high bush in southern Belize at the end of the last century with a bunch of K'ekchis who gave me the nickname Danto, which means Tapir. That name had been taken so I added the modifier Quaxi, which means crazy. What does CrazyTapir mean as far as the title of my blog? Whatever!

About Me

My Photo
Name:
Location: Cleveland, Ohio, United States

I am an enigmatic anachronism, facing the world jaded and uncomfortably impressed. My chosen profession is archaeology, which turns out to be way more tedious than cool. I race yachts, hang with the bohemian artist crowd, and vacation at ancient Maya cities. Its no wonder I usually feel out of place, and am oh-so-pleased to be different (even if it is not in a good way). Why TOC?: I was participating through emails in a call-in radio show that didn’t accept phone calls (it’s college radio, which covers a multitude of sins). The host had a friend named Chuck who also wrote into the show so they started referring to me as “the other Chuck.” I started signing my emails TOC (The Other Chuck). A little later I started posting to a blog that was running live during the next program in the lineup and then a couple of other places and have just kind of stuck with it as a screen name. Again, whatever dude.

Tuesday, September 13, 2005

Finally a Few Pics






I finally got around to compressing some pictures from Belize. It turned out to be more of a task than I had anticipated. I think I have shitty software and a slow machine, which was a tedious combo. There is a smattering of what I have that might be interesting to anyone who might happen by. There is a shot of myself and the three other researchers I spent most of my time down there with sitting on a log with, I think, the village chairman’s daughter. There is a nice view of the village from the site and a couple shots of a few of the village kids. And one of Phil documenting the carved monuments (stela) at the site.

posted by TOC | 6:52 PM

0 Comments:

Post a Comment

<< Home