So yesterday we rode to Guatemala City for our tires change… we had to follow ( our angel) Johanna in her car because the route was quite complicated and we could have ended up getting lost in parts of town were we should not hang out asking for direction, even during the day.
The first store had only ( too smooth) street tires and the shop looked a bit inadaquate to us, on the phone all seemed ok ( maybe a bit too inexpensive to be true) but the reality was quite different…so we went to the Suzuki dealer ( they on the phone told previously to Johanna that they didn’t have our tires size..)but at list they had two rear ones…with two different prices and very expensive….and they would have installed them but without balancing … And… It was Saturday and everything was closing at 12….and the sky was getting so black and loomy and we were so frustrated by everything so we ended up buying them, tossing them in Johanna’s car and heading back to Antigua under the rain, sweating again, and feeling even more frustrated and confused.
I think that is finally sinking in the reality of the different world we are in …
But somehow ( I speak very personally now) learning a bit more of how people live everyday here and some data like the fact that only 3% of the population makes it to college and only 1% of it finish it, or that mortality rate is so huge that many parents don’t give a first name to their children until they make it to on year of age is putting things in perspective…
Not that we don’t have access to this type of information at home on our handy computers, but here it has such an impact on me… maybe because we are breathing the same air mixed with the same kerosene fumes…
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Anyway, tomorrow we’ll make more calls and we’ll find the shop that can do a proper job.
Meanwhile here’s a pic of the volcano we can see from the window of our room.
Antigua is beautiful, more pics to come. No rain today( so far).
Wow!
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