Hammock Review:

Guatemala City

This Hammock Review may spark a little controversy amongst good people.

Even good people argue.

The debate here circles not around whether or not a particular hammock or not is good, but whether or one can truly review a hammock they did not recline on.

Let us provide some context for the great debate.

The mission in Guatemala City was a little different from the normal hammock mission of finding and reclining on a hammock and thus feeling 100 percent satisfied with life while lacking regrets.

Instead, the mission in Guatemala City was to buy a gift hammock—essentially the opposite of a gift horse—to my best friend from elementary school as a housewarming gift for him and his wife’s new house.

The goal, therefore was to find a hammock in the city below.

In order to achieve such a goal, we had to circle it, like a bird circles its prey—but in a good way.

We went a lot of cool places.

And saw a lot of things.

Traversing the city mostly on motorcycle.

And we ate a lot of things—that tasted great.

A lot of things that tasted great!

And we drank a lot of things—-that tasted great!

A lot of things.

All of this in preparation for finding the perfect hammock gift.

Now, I had a pair of great hosts—a lovely brother and sister who took me seemingly everywhere in Guatemala City and showed me so many things.

They were kind, generous, thoughtful—I truly cannot say enough about them.

But I will say another positive thing about them, perhaps the most positive thing someone could say: they understand my need to buy a housewarming hammock.

So they happily took me to the market downtown, to a vendor they knew well, a vendor they had contacted beforehand to make sure there was a top-quality hammock available and to ensure I got a good price.

So the mission was accomplished our dear readers and I was able to deliver the housewarming hammock to my dear friend of many years.

Except one thing is missing. It would only be natural, my dear reader, in my incompetence of picture maintenance that I would not be able to locate that picture taken of purchasing the hammock.

But dear reader, I will compensate for such failure, which I will frame as perceived in nature given my years of experience in excuse making and listening to the Spin Doctors, with excuses and spins. It is all for the best, because now we have a little more suspense built up and another mission for ourselves: to go to my friend’s house and lay on that hammock and provide another review!

So is a Hammock Review a Hammock Review without a picture of a hammock?

I, for one, say a resounding, “Yes!”

For hammock does not need a picture to exist and thus neither does a Hammock Review.

But, of course, this is a free world and this is a free internet, freer than that Other Internet, for reasons not worthy of going into in a pristine place like a Hammock Review.

But too often nowadays people think they need a picture to exist (#Instagram), but a hammock has never thought it needs a picture to exists. It just exists.

So it is with the world.

And so now this great hammock of Guatemala City (not pictured here) has given a gift that is too little given in this world: a sense of purpose. A purpose to track down that hammock and provide another Review of it and spark another controversy: can one hammock be worthy of two Reviews?

Stay tuned.