@busdriver11 Guatemala was a recent add, so I haven’t delved into the weather, but the part of Mexico I’m considering has elevation and highs of 80 in July. Otherwise I would have included Mérida, but it is very hot/humid, so got shelved for another time. I’ll check again in Europe. I could find cheap flights to get there, but nothing cheap to come home.
@jym626 We will be flying to Montreal, as we’re coming from the West coast.
@Lindagaf It’s funny that you say that Montreal “doesn’t give you a real sense of being in a different culture”. That is actually my son’s statement; he’d rather go south than north. And I did a trip to Guatemala ~20 years ago and I agree, Tikal is breathtaking. That itinerary is the least fleshed out, but I started getting tired of fleshing out three full itinerarires, so queried here. Re: Mexico, you would recommend Merida/Yucatan in July? It sounds really hot and humid. Mexico City feels overwhelming to me–like NYC on steroids. I want to feel like there’s some nature I could visit somehow, and perhaps I’m giving CDMX a bad rap, but it didn’t feel like that was an option there.
@abasket I had the family rank the options. Two said Canada, one said Guatemala first. I probably would have put Mexico first, hence the post. But the joy and bane of my family is that no one had super strong feelings about it, and we all did like how far our money went in Mexico; it made it easier to go out for more meals, etc, etc.
Thank you to all who have chimed in! It sounds like the vote here is Montreal/QC. I’ll have one more conversation with the family and, assuming all are in agreement, I’ll table the other two for another time.