Homeward bound

I best finish off the trip and report our day of returning home.  We finally reached Coban and found it to be a mass of one way streets.  Sister Norman had made a reservation for us but we could not find the place.  Christine asked a taxi driver where is was and he lead us to the place which was about a block away but we couldn't get there from where we were due to the one ways.  It was a hostel and our room had a queen and two double beds and a nice shower.  The room was large with huge windows right over the street and we could hear the bus boys yelling for patrons until after 10.  We wandered the streets and watched ladies carrying large loads on their heads and watched people scurrying home.

Carrying heavy loads.  Some do not even hold onto the burden they carry.

Beautiful people.

The next morning we were off after breakfast.  It was about 8:30.  Christine had a list of things to see so we headed to Salama to see a popular Cathedral.  The town was packed and the central plaza blocked off due to inaugural proceedings.  We drove by and saw the church on the next block and said good enough.  We headed to San Miguel to see if we might have better luck.  Again inaugural stuff but we found a parking spot and walked to the church.  Closed until 2.  Took a picture and headed on.  We even got a police escort out of town as we were having difficulty believing the road we found was the right one.  It was!

San Miguel Cathedral

The road was a narrow rutted dirt road but soon turned into a narrow smoother dirt road.  Only about 10 miles the nice policeman said.

More downhill than it looks. Believe me!

A bit more than 10 miles of this.

Miles and miles of dusty dirt road going up and down the mountain sides.  We wanted to see the aqueduct in Grandados but due to inaugural stuff yet again, we were detoured down narrow roads with 45 degree hills having to pull in mirrors to scrape by and someone called out "there it is" so we checked that one off the list and kept going.  We finally reached Guatemala City and and made it home by 6:30.  Whew!