After 8+ hours of buses I am now in far eastern Guatemala in the small city of Chiquimula, about 60 km from the Honduran frontera. At least this trip I took first class buses, which means it costs maybe 2 dollars more but you are sure to get your own seat with adult-sized legroom. But, they still stop at random places to pick up people by the side of the road and squeeze them into standing in the aisle. Anyway, I wanted to make it all the way to the border and to the Mayan ruins of Copan just across, but it was just too long of a trip to make it before the border closed, i realized, so i stopped here. Also I met with Otto, who lives here and works with Sister Schools International. He found out about the Bolivia computer project and wanted to meet me to talk about getting computers here to Guatemala. So we´ve been chatting about that. I keep trying to get him to understand how hard it is and that i still have not finished the Bolivia project. Anybody want to head up yet another Tech Solidarity project?
So he took me to an internet cafe and here i am. the connection is SUPER fast here, for some odd reason. Some kind of secret Guatemalan-US military CIA fiber backbone near here? I mean this is almost as fast as if i was down the hall from my server. Like back in the good old days on Ramona Street....
Anyway, tommorrow, the early bus to Copan. Cool ruins, jungle, birds, etc.
Posted by steev at Abril 23, 2005 07:28 PM