Days 11 and 12

Sunsets in guetamala are not all that bad, especially here at lake Antitilan. One of the great rides one can take on a motorcycle to get into lake area. Lake is surrounded by 2 towering volcanoes on each side.

Here's a good looking chap over looking lake in southern guetamala. You can see one of the volcanoes in backdrop. We truly treated ourselves and stayed at very nice resort right on lake with this view. Price for american resort with this scenery and amenties...OUTRAGISH...guetemala skip a few meals

In the little town of Panajachel, mostly Myan influence, sits this amazing lake at 5,100 feet. The town was quite charming with a fair amount of European and American visitors. Anyone wanting a nice getaway with minimal distractions fly into guetamala city and short drive.

One of the local myan nina's selling handcraft stuff. They work the tourists well as it cost Randy and I five quetzals for her picture.

Below is one of the locaL markets just before we hit the lake region. A town called Solola'.

These buggies are called tuk tuk originally from thailand ..used widely as taxi and some private vehicles. They seem to move thru the stone streets fairly easy..cuz my bike was shakin pretty good. Went out for a good night on town here..lots o fun ..guetamalan style

Some other wonderful views as we rode into town.

Day 12 we get into our 3rd country ...El Salvador..a country of beauty and hope.

As illustrated below the border crosses have begun to take a toll on us as we haven't quite figured this customs thing out. If it looks pretty doscile from the pictures it's b/c I wouldn't dare take pictures of the many many armed guards with machine guns all over. The borders are difficult to navigate when you have to go thru on motorcycle b/c of bribes and fees.

How the weather has changed. We have now been riding in 90+ temps...hit 3 digits around lunch time. It is a nice change from some of the elevations we climbed to. Heres a good picture of the polish power sticker on front of my moto. She's been running well gotta like the pols that can really last. After about 3 hours of bribes, fees, other fees, fees for people to access fees and many many photocopies we were thru. We read alot about border crossings and how tricky and time consuming they may be but until you do it...just can't imagine.

So were off in running in El Salvador. We are now nearing 2,000 miles ...yahoooo