The Sucky Bus Ride to Guatemala City

With in 10 minutes of leaving Flores; not even 2 Miles down the road at the next bus pick up spot (and thankfully a bus station in Santa Elena) the bus broke down. Let me just set this picture up in your mind for a minute…this is a two Story 45 passenger charter bus with the motor, storage, bathroom and driver compartment on the first level and all the seats on the second level. The first solution the bus driver and co-workers came up with was to try to push the bus to jump start it. NOT going to happen!! The second solution they came up with proved to be more successful. They changed out the two 2 ½” x 1 ½” and 60 lbs. batteries with some from another bus. This took about an hour so when the bus started first try we were all very excited. For the next 9 hours we just had to hope the bus would not brake down again and second try to figure out how to sleep in airplane size seats with the air conditioner turning us blue. It was SO COLD!!!

The Sucky Bus Ride to Guatemala City

Flores, Guatemala