Detour !!! - Blogabond

Pretty much as soon as the sun rose and the roosters started cock-a-doodle-doing we got up and packed up and on the road out of town at about 7:30 AM. Back tracking from a few days before we headed back to Guatemala City. Everything was going good since we were familiar with the roads until… we hit a detour in the middle of the Guatemala City because of a marathon. Craig and I quickly searched the van for our travel books and road map of Central America. To make the problem worse most all the streets are one-way in the city so we were up and down and back and forth etc. When we finally thought we were on the right track, about 20 minutes out of the city, we started seeing signs for El Salvador. Oooppps. Wrong road. Oh crap now its back to the city and one-way roads!! Navigating our way through the streets and stopping to ask people we finally made it out of the city and onto the correct road to Honduras. This was a 2 ½ hour detour. All was good for the next 3 hours until….again….we had trouble. On the last road and about 35 Miles from the boarder the van OVER HEATED. Fortunately we came to a stop right in front of a House. A wife, husband and little girl came out to see what was up. They brought us a bucket of water to help the car cool down. We waited about 40 minutes then were on our way again. After this we decided it was bad luck not to have a name for the van. SO we decided to name it after the town we broke down in. Her name is “Chiquimula”. The boarder into Honduras was a breeze unlike the prior and a blessing from the past two incidence. Beyond that we had no more problems, got into the town Copán and found our next hostel Manzana Verde.

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ryan & debbrial on October 25, 2009 from Copan, Honduras

from the travel blog: Us Discovering the Latin Americas

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