Well hello everyone I am in now in Guatemala City Guatemala. The flight here? Ver-r-r-r-ry interesting. The flight from Mazatlan got off in a more or less timely manner and we even got to Mexico City about 10 minutes earlyIMAGINE! So I get off the plane and find the gate for my connecting flight. Well there is a bar more or less next door so I go to have something to eat and a beer. I notice that within about 10 minutes they are about to start boarding my flight (allegedly) so I go to my gate and of course the gate has been changed so I run 10 gates down and find the new gate. Great the flight is supposed to start boarding at 9pm and take off at 9:45 HAH! Needless to say 945 comes and goes and we have not even started loading yet. The reason given is weather in Guatemala is too bad. Note that the weather in Guatemala not just Guatemala City and of course I´m thinking "this sounds like great bicycling weather" well finally at 11:00 we take off we are in the air for an hour(in an hour and a half flight) when they announce that the weather is too bad to land in Guatemala about 45 minutes after we land but not in Guatemala City in fact they never do tell us where we landed. We are all getting our stuff out of our overhead bins and waiting there with great expectations and waiting and waiting until after about 30 minutes they make an announcement that due to the weather the flight has been cancelled and we are all returning to Mexico City after refueling is completed. We all sit down and then about 30 minutes after that they announce that we are going to Guatemala City after all. Back in the air the weather deteriorates as we head towards Guatemala again. After a while the plane starts diving through the clouds and it becomes obvious the the pilot is going below the clouds because he can´t find the airport of course in order to do this it becomes necessary to go rather low and so at least by appearances he would go low, see a tall building and then hit the gas and go back up again and this went on for a while until he finally found the airport, talk about an E ticket. Well the flight that was supposed to arrive at 10:40 at night got there at 5:45 in the morning. Obviously the guy who was supposed to meet me there at 10:40 was long gone. I got to bed at 6:30 and woke at 8:45. I talked to the owner and asked him about tourist information and ended hiring a taxi to take me around the city and out to a little colonial tourist trap town named Antigua. It was interesting but it rained constantly while we were walking around town. In fact it is still raining. I guess thay don´t call it the rainy season for nothin. Well that´s all for now.
Hasta la vista baby!
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