Hell on Earth

OK Guatemala City was one of the most appealing places I´ve ever seen so I left early morning. However, I´ve met there two Italians and one Argentinian guy who cut a deal with the Italian government that they are going to travel from Mexico to Argentina for a year, document it, and then Italian government is going to pay the for two years after that. Sounds nice. Among other things, they want to walk from Panama to Columbia through the forrest which is suppose to take three days.

I´m suppose to take the bus from Guatemala City to Livingstone, but when I got up early and went to the bus station hoping to catch an earlier bus, I found out that the only thing coming up was a bus to Puerto Barrios. I opted for that, and once I got out there I got on a minibus to the border with Honduras. The problem is that I didn´t have time to swing by the Immigration office so I never got an exit stamp, but they still let me into Honduras. Now I guess, I can´t go back to Guatemala until my passport expires. From the border I took a chicken bus to Omoa where I spent a night, and hey I´ve came across another Polish guy. It was nice to speak some Polish and drink beers.

I got up early morning today, and took few buses to La Ceiba which is a lunching base for boats to the Bay Islands. I´m going to get on a boat in about an hour and spend anywere from a week to two just scuba diving out there. The problem is that the internet on Roatan is over $10 per hour so I don´t think I´ll be using it much. I might go to Belize after that.

In reference to Hell these are buses in here really suck. They are so uncomfortable and stop every 50m to pick up people on the side of the road or drop them off. While in the neighbouring countries these are susually old US school buses in here it seems that Blue Birds rule. Well, I guess it´s fine for moderate distances but I don´t see myself on a bus like that for 8h or so, and there are not too many other options.