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Flying solo

// February 16th, 2005 // Guatemala

So paul has decided to ditch me for a girl again. He is going to be going up to San Christobal (spelling?) in a couple days to visit his ex girlfriend. I will be back to traveling solo, hopefully i can meet someone cool again… He wants to meet back up but i don’t think that’s going to happen… He ditched me for someone earlier in the trip and I don’t want to deal with it anymore… we’ll see though, I am not totally against meeting up again, i’m just not going to put forth an effort…

Last night we went out to Mono Loco (crazy monkey) for nachos… some damn fine nacho’s i may add… they will be greating my stomache again in a few hours. we ended up getting pretty drunk… 4 big 40oz styles of beer and a few normal bottles… it was fun… i haven’t been drunk down here for a month or so… well we stayed out until midnight or so then came home and went to bed… we were supposed to get up at 5am or so to climb an active volcano…. the alarm went off but we were still drunk so we said screw it.. there were also people leaving at 1pm… we were going to go then but they wanted an extra $3 so we decided to just wait until tomorrow to go… so we have to get up early tomorrow… its an hour and a half in a bus, then a two hour climb… a little bit at the crater for pictures and what not and then back here to Antigua… it will be after 2pm when we get back so we’ll more than likely stay the night again….

then the day after tomorrow we head to guatamala city… I’ll get my bus ticket to return to costa rica on the 25th to meet my mom and paul will head off to find his ex… i will then head 4 hours north of guatamala city, hoping to get out of thre the same day… and head up to a botanical/waterfall garden… i’ll check that place out and then either crash there for the night or head up to Coban, Guatamala…. from there there are supposedly some very cool places to swim and more waterfalls and whatnot. Lonely planet calls it the most beautiful place in guatamala… so we’ll see.

then i’ll head back down for my bus to costa rica… it’s about 60 hours worth of bussing to get down… it’s going to suck, especially alone.

Depart Guatemala at 1p.m., arrive in El Salvador
at approximately 5:00 p.m. (stay in El Salvador overnight)

Depart El Salvador at 5:00 a.m., arrive in Nicaragua at approximately 5:00 p.m. (stay in Nicaragua overnight)

Depart Nicaragua at 5:45, 6:00 a.m. and 12:00 noon, arrive in Costa Rica at approximately 4, 5 and 9 p.m.

I will pick my mom up from the airport and show her around costa rica for 10 days.. then i will be back in costa rica traveling alone.. just like the trip started.

I may head up to Nicauraugua (i hate that damn word) … theres an island there in the middle of a lake that is just two huge volcano’s… it’s supposedly pretty cheap and it looks beautiful from the road we saw it from… we’ll see!