Ola,
Travelled through Guatamala and now in Honduras, countries in Central America are very close together and small so its easy to hop between them. Got a cold at the moment, up in the mountains and its raining, been taking it easy for a couple of days to rest, back to hitchiking tomorrow morning, hopefully we will get to Nicaragua by xmas, after which I will have until the 8th to head back to Mexico City, so pleanty of time I hope.

Now travelling with Jeremy, 20 from NZ, and Rosie, 18 from UK, very cheap here, especially the 3 of us sharing, but I have just lost a bank card in an ATM, so am on the net trying to contact them to cancel it.... but it was my singapore bank, so a bit complicated....

Hitching is going really well, a great way to see the countries, so far hitched from Puerto Escondido on the Mexican Pacific coast to Guatamala City. Went from Ketzaltenango in guatamala to some hot sulphur springs in the mountains, we rented out a bungalow there with log fire, and swam in the hotsprings unitl midnight, with no one else about, was one of the best times here so far. Hitched on from there to Lake Atitlan, guatamalas biggest toursits attraction, and lots of tourists, but still beautiful, spent 2 days there, one a panajachel one at san marco, then headed off to Guatamala City, hitched through some back roads to see what it was like and got dropped off in the middle of no where, as I sat playing my guitar, in for a long wait, a big dark blue Volvo went passed and stopped, this rich 50 something year old white looking man got out and opened the boot for us to throw our stuff in. It turns out he was the ex Guatamalan ambassador to Sweden, El Salvador and Costa Rica, and he was currently working for the government on regional devolution after he was ousted from his position as ambassador by the last government and lived in exile in Costa Rica! He gave us a potted history of Guatamala and central America, very int3eresting.

Looking forward to starting in Mexico, gotta go,
bye
john