Posted by mainly duesouth on Tuesday, October 19, 2010,
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055 Guatemala
Day 40
Miles 310
We updated the website first thing so
did not get going until around half 9. once on the road we headed
from Tekal in the direction of Honduras. We stopped for
breakfast/lunch at a small tin hut where a chap was cooking fresh
chicken, bloody hell it was good.
By around 3 or 4pm we had reached the
border... I never noticed it and thought it was just another military
check point so rode straight past, I stopped about half a mile up the
road as George was not beh...
Posted by mainly duesouth on Sunday, October 10, 2010,
In :
055 Guatemala
Day 39
Miles: not many
First job of the day was to find
magna gasolina and something to eat. Gassing up was a syphon yourself
affair. We purchased 12 litres between us, some of which I used to
wash down my malaria pill and clean my eyes.
It was then of to Mexican
immigration to get stamped out of the country. As we left the
immigration office we were instantly surrounded by boat owners
offering us a lift to Guatemala on the other side of the river. We
brokered a price of $25US eac...