April 2009
3 posts
Transport Guatemala →
…getting there is half the fun!
Guatemala is nothing if not colorful! Here even the ever so mundane American school bus comes dressed like a Las Vegas show girl. Picture a mechanical pig decked out for carnival. They are simply fantastic …as long as you don’t care where you are going and it doesn’t matter when you get there.
The bizarre blend of American functionality and Guatemalan serendipity is wonderful...
My Chicken Bus Story
Once coming back from Guatemala City my driver and a competitor company’s “piloto”, as they are called, got it in their heads that while what they were driving may have looked and smelled like beat-up old American school buses, were in fact finely tuned Formula 1 race cars.
Now I consider myself to be a fairly game traveler. At least I didn’t want the Guatemalans to think...
