Saturday, September 25, 2010

Day 118 (Saturday September 11, 2010): Xela, Guatemala to Tapachula, Mexico.

I miss the first bus at 4 in the morning but I do not need to wait long before the next one arrives. At Coatepeque I switch buses but it doesn’t get very far before we hit a major traffic jam. This forces me to carry my extremely heavy bag (around 80 lbs) with non-ergonomic straps for 3 kilometres. At which point I start hitchhiking to the border.  A very smooth transition but I am certain one of the transit police faked a problem with me leaving the country without my now deceased motorcycle just to extort money.

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