Comments on: Calling All Mules

By: Joe

Joe — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 00:51:50 +0000

Mark, I think I have a bottle of Molasses that I can sell you. I was going to try to make Moravian Molasses Sugar Cookies from some "original" recipe I got in Old Salem, North Carolina for Thanksgiving and well, that holiday's past now and no cookies. I can't decide if I didn't really like the idea of the cookie or the fact that I would have needed God knows how many hours running the 1,200 paper thin cookies the recipe made through a press. Let me know.

By: Expat Mom

Expat Mom — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 20:25:43 +0000

Note for anyone bringing molasses . . . double bag it! I had a friend bring me a jar, as well as two bottles of soy sauce several years back and she had the forsight to do this, thankfully, because the jar did leak!

By: Nancy Bailey

Nancy Bailey — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 16:07:27 +0000

I read in Saturday’s Prensa Libre that during Christmas there is not going to be a charge for duty or IVA on items under $500.00 sent to a person’s home from outside Guatemala. I didn’t believe this but lo and behold two guys showed up on a moto Saturday and said they had two boxes for me. I knew they weren’t from the PO Box courier service I use and was pretty suspicious but indeed there were two boxes a family had sent, from the States, for the kids at Semillas de Amor for Christmas and I wasn’t charged a dime AND they delivered it to my house. The article in the Prensa Libre made it sound as though the Guatemalan postal service wants to compete with the private courier services. Wouldn’t it be nice to have a kinder, gentler and less corrupt aduana?

By: Kerry

Kerry — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 14:28:54 +0000

I'm coming in January… make me a small list and I will see what I can get my hands on for you.