Glad we came to Guat City a day early.  We planned to do so because we were going to check out the city and pick up some gifts for folks……you know…….but things turned out different.  The ‘bug’ hit us again just as we were leaving El Salvador and we need the extra day to re-fill the hollow void that results from an ‘adios’ bout of Tourista.

It’s OK.  It’s unpleasant but it’s OK.  Here’s why…. I don’t fast.  And I never do any of those weird health-food-store-sold enema-type things to ‘cleanse’ my insides.  Basically, I just go traveling every once in awhile.  That does the trick every time.  Trust me.  I’m as clean as a whistle right now – inside and out.  In fact, I am so clean I am pretty close to being able to whistle from where the sun don’t shine.

Travel: a natural way to broaden the mind and cleanse the insides. 

OK.  Sorry.  A bit too much information?  It is just that I think I can get away with all this today because Sal is in no position to edit.  This is my day to say what I want!   Look out!

Well, actually, the graphic image of my insides will have to do.  I don’t really have that much to say…………..well, not much, anyway.

We’re in Casa Quatzelroo a small ‘hostel’ not far from the GUA airport.  It’s clean.  It’s cheap. The people running it are great.  It’s a good place to ‘hole up’  (pardon the pun) and get our…….uh……stuff…together.

And, once again, get a sense of deja vu.  Ya wanna remember what it is like to be young again?  Go stay at a hostel.  Of course, you’ll feel old in the process but all around you are young people doing young people things and, in our case, deferring to the ‘old guys’.  It’s kinda fun.  I half expect to be called ‘sir’.

Denise is helping to organize youth conferences to empower women to blah, blah, blah and to realize the potential of the earth in sustaining us…….(blah, blah)….and, well, a whole lot more stuff described in modern jargonesque type conversation.  She’s a sweetie ‘tho, and I am sure that she’ll get it all done and do a good job.  Seems her project is called Project Seres.  I’ll have to look it up.

We may even collaborate on a few things………

………..but I am too old for youth conferences.

Met ‘traveling Dave’ from Toronto.  Closer to my age but better preserved and spends a great deal less time in el bano than I do.  He’s fun.  Seems that he and I had coincidentally met last year!  On the net!  He runs HitTheRoad.ca, a company that pairs drivers with cars that need delivering.  I wanted to do that and contacted him but they are out of Toronto and so a Vancouver Island vehicle destined for Florida (which is what I was looking for – preferably an RV.  Why not?) was not likely going to happen.  But we exchanged e-mails.  He remembered.  And here we are…………in Guatemala.

As it turns out, we may drive a car to Florida next year.  Sal and I have always wanted to see Kentucky, Tennessee and ‘Bubba’ country.  So now it may happen.  We’ll see.

Strange how things work out, eh?