been sitting here at a local restaurant for the last few hours (long enough to hear the cd loop three times) — updating the website and talking to a few other travelers. in fact, i just met two travelers who also want to get to argentina! they’re doing the trip on buses, though, and plan on taking ~1 year. tomorrow, they’re hitching a ride on the sentra to blue hole, dangriga and then hopkins. another couple is headed to guatemala, so i might give them a ride sometime during this trip too.
san ignasio is a little town which doesn’t offer much, but it is nice, clean and seems safe. aro)und san ignacio or archaeological sites, caves, etc.

since i don’t have any pics of here, here’s a chance to talk a bit about guatemalan driving. it seems that most of the country has either no signs or really confusing signs (see pic). it seems that most guatemalans don’t drive very much and that directions are passed down through oral tradition. EXAMPLE: one way streets are almost always unmarked. I wonder if gps navigation will become ubiquitous enough to bypass signs….in much the same way that many developing countries are bypassing landlines (using cell phones instead).