Tag: Guatemala City

Guatemala City Maintenance Day, Back to Work- 20220705

Today was maintenance day before heading back to work for a trip. I woke up and headed to a nice coffee shop called coffee district where the barista was studying to be a pilot. He somehow guessed I was a pilot because of my Sinaloa hat and he said “my face looked like a pilot face.” It blew my mind. We talked about it for a bit. Then I tried to get some blog and work stuff done.

Delicious

I booked a flight to work and dropped the moto off at Christian’s house. Super nice dude. So far on this trip I have used Couchsurfing as a way to find people to leave the motorcycle with with great success. I have only met amazing people more than willing to house my motorcycle for sometimes an entire month.

In Guatemala City you can use uber to book motorcycle rides. I highly recommend it if you don’t value your life much. The dude rode like an absolute idiot. He went from full throttle to full brake the entire ride and hit a pothole harder than I’ve ever felt before. But it was fun.

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Guatemala City moto uber ride

It was fun

Tomorrow I head back to work so the fun is over for now.

Ride From Lake Atitlan to Antigua and Guatemala City – 20220704

I took the boat from San Marcos to San Juan La Laguna to get to Donkey to ride onwards to Antigua. The boatride is supposed to be 10 quetzales but they charge gringos 15. The dude was a total ass too. Things like this always leave a bad taste in my mouth about Guatemala. I feel consistently more scammed here than anywhere else in Central America

I checked out of the  hostel and started riding around 930 which was a nice early start. It ended up being one of the hardest days yet. I took the risk of continuing the road around the lake to see some new spots and stop in Antigua on the way back to Guatemala city.

Donkey in Antigua

The road was rough and rocky and super steep. NOT a nice ride. I was certain I was going to drop the bike a few times but somehow never did. As I went on through the day the driving got worse and worse. 

When I finally arrived in Antigua I ate lunch at El Comalote and it was delicious. They make everything in house. You can buy big bags of fresh tortilla chips if you so desire. I spent a couple hours daydreaming some of my old memories of traveling by bus in Antigua years ago remembering some of the very good friends I met on that trip.

I don’t even know what this was, but it was delicious

I then continued on the Guatemala city and the road from there was awful as well but for different reasons. 2 lane highways with enormous trucks trying to blow you off the road. They would literally leave me 2 inches of space and blast their horns at me while they did it.

I finally made it into the city absolutely tense. I can feel it so hard in my shoulders and back.