Tikal, Guatemala
Tikal is the greatest of the Maya cities, a metropolis of stone pyramids that a thousand years of jungle could hide but not erase. Getting there is a slog through the Peten lowlands, and it is worth every mile.
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The personal site of Seamus Waldron · online since 1995
A Profound Journey.
Thirty years of travel, technology and the occasional opinion — from the temples of Tikal to the inside of a Sinclair ZX81. Updated whenever there is something worth saying.
31yrs
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Index of the archive
1995 — present
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Personal diary entries and commentary
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About Seamus Waldron and the history of A Profound Journey
Chapter 01 · Travel
Field notes from far away
Dispatches from the road — photographed on whatever camera was to hand at the time, which explains a lot.
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The True Treasure of Guatemala
Guatemala holds the heart of the Maya world: Tikal, the older and emptier El Mirador, and a highland country of volcanoes and markets above it all.
Belize an Enchanting Destination for All
Belize is the only English-speaking country in Central America, and it packs a barrier reef, dense jungle and Maya ruins into a country smaller than Wales.
Travels in Peru
"Until you stop travelling, you can never really say that you have been travelling." , writes Ian Kensey on his first major trip abroad . The alarm went off at 5am.
The Gateway Arch
The Gateway Arch is 630 feet of stainless steel bent into a perfect curve over the Mississippi. It is the tallest monument in the United States, and it is completely mad.
Romania Vlad the Impaler (Dracula)
In search of Vlad the Impaler, written by Seamus Waldron . [Jump straight to Dracula ] The beginning 5am. Yawn.
Chapter 02 · Technology
It began with 1K of RAM
Long before this site, there was a Sinclair ZX81 on a kitchen table. The technology section is part museum, part memoir — the ZX80, the ZX81 and the IBM PC110, documented in the kind of detail only someone who was there would bother with.
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317 entries · 1995 — present
Nº 317
Disclosure Day (2026)
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Masters of the Universe (2026)
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The Mandalorian and Grogu (2026)
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Project Hail Mary (2026)
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The history of A Profound Journey
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About a profound journey
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Mercy (2026)
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TraitorBot
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“Started in 1995 with hand-written HTML and a dial-up modem. Still going.”
Seamus Waldron — traveller, technologist, writer
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