Route of the Maya Oat Trip
Travel to Guatemala City, Guatemala
13 Dec 2023 - Long Travel Day
Up at 5:55am. George about 20 minutes later, after I was
out of the shower, but before the alarm went off. Luggage out by 7am & down for breakfast a
few minutes later. Had eggs, tortilla,
banana, beans & some farmers cheese.
Very good. Up to look at the
upper patio one more time. Didn’t hear
or see anything new. Pottied & down
to board bus about 7:45am. On the road
shortly after. Found out that Bob had
forgotten about his passport & left it in his suitcases that Hector had
strapped down on top of the bus. While
we were at the border doing our passports, which was extremely quick & easy
– no one else here. Hector had to get his suitcases down & Bob couldn’t
even remember which one it was in, got small one down & so it ended up
being the big one. Poor Hector &
Walter. You could tell that both were
upset, but tried not to be. Walter said
it did usually happen once every trip!
Crazy!!
The drive was uneventful. Walter talked for a bit during the first part
before lunch. Mostly about Guatamala,
but Bob asked for more info on Honduras too.
I was fighting staying awake.
Bottom line is that as usual the US had stuck their noses in &
helped one of the leaders who ended up pretty much trying for genecide of the natives. Recent issues are because the guy that won
this election is backed by UN & US, but the Federal Judicial system of
Guatemala is trying for a coo. Fairly
quiet right now thank goodness.
Stopped for lunch at a fast food
place Walter had pre ordered for
us. Quite a variety offered. George & I both had Thai pasta with grilled
chicken. It was very good. Came with Garlic toast too. Others had a pizza, fajitas. Most had ice cream from the shop next door,
but we didn’t. 
Back on the bus, it was very hard
to stay awake. As we started up into the
mountains, I gave up & went to sleep.
Slept for almost an hour. Worked
on Spelling Bee & got Queen Bee on today, yesterday, & on of last week’s
that I had missed. Still have one more
to catch up on. Maybe tonight!
Less traffic than usual, so we
arrived at the Clarion Hotel about 3:15pm.
Easily checked in. Nice room – I
guess all in the hotel are suites. We
are on the 5th floor with a few others. Some all the way up on the 15th. Satisfied with the room though. Had to call for help with the safe and also
found there is no ice machine, you have to call for it which I did & they
brought it before it was time to go down stairs to meet Walter for our
orientation walk.
Down at 4:30p and took a walk
around the block of the hotel. There is
a shopping mall just down the street – very upscale with lots of good
restaurants. Wandered through it while
he mentioned suggestions of where to go.
Then on around the block. Ended
at a really nice bakery. Started to buy
wine there, but I suggested we go back to a grocery store we had noticed on the
way to the mall, so we walked back.
Choose a Chilean Bottle of Carmenere that was half the price of the
bakery. Hope it’s good! Bought a bag of tortilla chips in case we get
puckish.
Got our welcome drink in the bar
– only choices were sangria or daiquiri.
Took the daiquiri – not frozen, on the ice and it was sweet, but
tasty.
Ran into Walter as we were
heading up. He said he would stop at a
bigger store on the way to Antiqua on Thursday so we’d have a better selection.
On up to the room to catch up on
the journal. Reset my finger print sign
in on my laptop. Should be interesting
to see if it works!
Get to sleep in a half hour in
the morning – not leaving until 8:30am!
Yeah! Both of us piddled on computers & watched NCIS. George came up with the idea of us each wearing an ear bud so we can hear better & not have to have the volume up. Works great.
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