Today the plan is to cross into Mexico and get to Oaxaca. This may be quite a process.
We all have to get Visas and then get the newly registered GWagon pass the border and fumigated. Hope they fumigate Luis too!
It was a “drive thru” fumigation process, in a straight line. We hope there was some wax or Rainx in it at least…
Now we wait for bank to open to pay more fees.
Right after I snapped that picture of Jim waiting at the bank everyone commenced to yelling at the Bald Gringo, or “Pellon” which is my newly acquired nick name. Not supposed to take pictures of banks eh? Who knew….
But wait. We need ANOTHER copy. So we crossed the border into Mexico, made a copy and walked BACK into Guatemala.
I won’t put another picture of the bank here… oh but we can’t use the copies just on the other side of the glass inside the bank… cause that would be to easy.
Next is the security inspection. Things are known to sprout legs and disappear. Can’t wait.
update: made it through the security inspections and drove about 92 kilometers and then at a checkpoint we got to get the entire GWagon x-rayed! We drove up on a platforms and a very large X-ray machine scanned the car. Now we are waiting for the results. Hope it doesn’t have cancer!
Drove for a bit and stopped for A Luis bucket list item!
Then we made some new friends who wanted a close look at the GWagon. Sheesh.
Staying in Santo Domingo Tehuantepec tonight.
And 9:46pm local time we had an earthquake! Slight tremor but shook the building good.
Here is the USGS page for the quake we felt. Ah, cool there is a fault line nearby!
https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/us1000h5sq/map