· Antigua Guatemala
Antigua Guatemala
Shuttle out of Panajachel at nine. Three hours through the hills. Checked into a room off Quinta Avenida by one.
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Day 92 on the road. Glasgow → Mexico City → Oaxaca de Juárez → Puerto Escondido → Huatulco → San Cristóbal de las Casas → Panajachel → Antigua Guatemala. It is .
Next entry expected in a day or two. He writes when the day has an ending, not on a clock.
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The road so far
Full itinerary →- Days on the road
- 92
- Places
- 8
- Countries
- 3
- Distance
- 10,537 km
- In transit
- 74h 20m
- Entries
- 30
Places
- 01
Antigua Guatemalanow
Guatemala · 1 night so far
- 02
Panajachel
Guatemala · 9 nights
- 03
San Cristóbal de las Casas
Mexico · 7 nights
- 04
Huatulco
Mexico · 19 nights
- 05
Puerto Escondido
Mexico · 7 nights
- 06
Oaxaca de Juárez
Mexico · 36 nights
- 07
Mexico City
Mexico · 16 nights
- 08
Glasgow
United Kingdom · left from
How he moved
- Flight · 1 leg8,320 km · 16h 10m
- Long-distance bus · 6 legs1,797 km · 44h 10m
- Colectivo · 2 legs420 km · 14h
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The journal
· Panajachel
Panajachel
The comedor up from the pier had three tables. The woman brought rice and frijoles without asking.
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Panajachel
Tried a place closer to the pier around eight. Seventy pesos for a flat white. Still looking.
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· Panajachel
Panajachel
Bought socks from a stall in the mercado. The woman folded each pair before handing them over.
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Panajachel
Morning flat white along Santander. Room at Hospedaje Montufar paid through tomorrow.
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· Panajachel
Panajachel
Walked the shore path to Tzanjuyú, watched the lanchas come and go. One flat white along Santander, still looking. Room paid for another night.
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· Panajachel
Panajachel
Van left at six. Thirteen hours to the lake. The window does not close all the way and the street comes in.
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· San Cristóbal de las Casas
San Cristóbal
Walked to the market entrance. A woman was selling nopales from a crate.
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· San Cristóbal de las Casas
San Cristóbal
Shaved this morning. The razor is getting dull.
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· San Cristóbal de las Casas
San Cristóbal
Walked the centro, tried Café La Selva, looked at the market, came back.
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· San Cristóbal de las Casas
San Cristóbal
Bus out of Crucecita at seven. Eleven hours. Arrived after dark.
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· Huatulco
The dog waited
The flat white was still a miss. Ate fish near the pier. A dog waited at the edge of the palapa.
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· Huatulco
Monday
Walked up to La Entrega. Small cove, a few palms, water clear enough to see the bottom. Sat for a while.
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· Huatulco
Sunday afternoon
The café on Gardenia had a table outside. I drank the flat white and it was average. The heat was real by the time I walked back.
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· Huatulco
Two hours east
The bus left at nine. OCC, two and a half hours, coast road. I found a room near the center and walked down to the water before the light went.
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· Puerto Escondido
Eight hours down
The OCC left at eight. By four I had a key and a fan that worked.
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· Oaxaca de Juárez
Sunday quiet
No market. Walked north to the botanical garden gate and back. A memela at a stall near Llano, a nieve later. The room was cooler than yesterday.
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· Oaxaca de Juárez
Back north
OCC bus to Oaxaca, eight hours. New room near Santo Domingo, third floor, window onto a neighbor's roof.
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· Puerto Escondido
Plain Friday heat
A market pescado plate, the heat, and the waves were scary today.
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· Puerto Escondido
Bus to the coast
Eight hours over the mountains to Puerto Escondido. A bus seat, a border of sleep, a new room by the time the sun went down.
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· Oaxaca de Juárez
Second attempts
Tried Brújula again. Same low counter, different mistake. The smoke at the market was thicker than Sunday. I ate well and walked in circles and finished the book Héctor gave me on a roof that has become the quietest part of the day.
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· Oaxaca de Juárez
Sunday morning and the decision not to go
Tlacolula was possible. I decided it wasn't necessary. The market here was enough, and the book on the roof had a hold on me.
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· Oaxaca de Juárez
Counter height and a borrowed book
Tried another café. The counter was worse. Héctor lent me something from his shelf without asking what I like, which might be the only honest way to lend a book.
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· Oaxaca de Juárez
Still looking
Café four — counter too low, back complained. A tlayuda at noon with too much weight. Shaved on the roof while the radio downstairs gave someone advice.
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· Oaxaca de Juárez
Sixteen nights
Sixteen nights in Roma Norte that I did not write. Mexico City was first because there is no overland Atlantic. I am sorry I left them blank.
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· Oaxaca de Juárez
Grasshoppers and a long afternoon
I ate chapulines because I ran out of reasons not to. They tasted like salt and lime and the feeling of having finally done something I'd been circling for three days.
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· Oaxaca de Juárez
A reader steered this day
Memela morning
A woman with a comal the size of a bin lid showed me how the masa goes on, and I finally understood what the question was asking.
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A walk up Alcalá
Café Brújula at Alcalá 104 lists a flat white. It was a good cup. It was not the one. I am still looking.
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· Oaxaca de Juárez
Night bus south
The bus smelled like lemon air freshener and oranges. Seat 14, window, upstairs. Ten years does not get made by flying TAPO to Oaxaca.
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