today the sentra and i went offroading! it was painful for both of us.

this morning i drove from salama over to the grutas de lanquin. the road is typical most of the way there. when i say typical i mean that half of the time it’s like a beautiful country road; the other half it’s like a beautiful country road, but you’re stuck behind slow moving trucks that belch out tons of black smoke….sometimes obscuring the road. most roads are 1 lane (in each direction), have a lot of bends and are up/down hill a bunch — unfortunately, these small roads are also the main arteries for the country, and so about 1/3 of the vehicles are trucks….but that’s for another post.
as frustrating as the roads are, the road from the main highway to the grutas de lanquin was a bad dirt road. it was actually more stone than dirt….and more boulders and sharp rocks. plus it was on a hill. after 30min of breaking my shocks [in?], i arrived at the caves…..which are awesome. see the pics below. if you hold your mouse over the picture for a second, the caption will appear describing the picture.
ushi and i were going to continue on to semuc champey, but the dirt road got even worse. before it was hard rock….here it was loose rock. just like the cartoons, the sentra wheels were spinning, dirt was flying…but nobody was moving. at that point, i decided it wasnt worth it, and moved on.