We've arrived...I think
Trip Start
Sep 17, 2007
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Guatemala City,
Guatemala
Monday, September 17, 2007
We write to you from the spectacular Guatemala City. We arrived about 2 pm today after the first flight of our trip. Everything was fairly uneventful, at least until we arrived at the airport in Guatemala City. We passed signs proclaiming that this place was going to be the most modern airport in Central America. They weren't finished yet, and we walked clear out of the terminal without even realizing we had left. But once we figured out that the parking garage did not lead to the main shopping area, we turned around and got our first quetzals.
Being brave and daring adventurers, we avoided the easy taxi ride for 50 quetzals and instead jumped on the local bus for 1 quetzal, thereby saving us 48 of the very cool looking ones. It was quite a nice bus really, and we were entertained by the sellers who jumped on the bus with pens, WOW! gum, and strange light bulb key-chains. We proceeded through the shabby outer areas of the city to the center and jumped off at the central market. After hanging out at the Plaza Mayor we headed off to find food and stumbled across our first Internet cafe.
The plan is now to head down to Antigua for a couple days before hitting the Lake District. We'll update more extensively later..we just wanted to let everyone know that we've arrived safely and are enjoying ourselves so far.
The next step is to find food and a bathroom.
~Travis
Comments
Water...
Also be careful what you drink out there guys. Have fun!
Have fun
good job blogging!
Don't eat that, it's dangerous! :-)
Happy Adventures!
Isn't it great that you're finally traveling? You've been preparing for this for so long! Have a great time!
Happy trails
Forth! (blog speak for 'go forth and enjoy')
Dos Jo'venes, educado
Con el mayor cuidado
Por un viejo filo'sofo profundo,
Salio' por fin a visitar el mundo. (Samaniego)
HEY YO
Brently and I say hi!
Eat some crazy food. OH!
and jessi is in costa rica. are you going there? just wondering.
miss you, love you.
ING!
pretzel?
Thought quetzal was a food for a minute. I was imagining it so, so tasty.
Pictures made it
Travis and Erin
your pictures made it fine and are saved on computer.
Hope all is well!
mom and dad