So we have finally began to ride our bicycles non stop through the deep jungles of Chiapas and made our way across the Guatemalan boarder where we currently are.
On our second or third day of non stop bicycle riding from Cometan, Chiapas, we came across a construction site. Now at first I thought it would be just an average construction site, but I was totally wrong. Apparently the river washed out some of the road which meant that there were cars lined up on both sides of the road with no way to pass over. There was a huge tractor scooping up a bunch of dirt and filling in the road. After the tractor smoothed over the road they started to let cars pass. After some cars passed by our whole bicycle gang of 8 bicyclist passed over the road with no problem. After a brief moment of excitement and jumping around we heard crying and people screaming. We all turned around immediatly and saw that the road that just got packed in started to crumble, which made a pick up truck fall in the dirt partially. Everyone evactuated the truck safely before we arrived on the scene. Kipchoge and I and some of the rest of the gang started to run towards the truck. As I arrived to the scene people started yelling at me in Spanish and English saying they wanted to use my light and that they needed a large chain that was in the back of their truck. Without thinking I quickly jumped into the back of the truck which was halfway off the road trying to find a chain. Shortly after throwing everything around in the back of the truck frantickly, I found the chain and then carefully jumped out. They connected the chain to the tractor and the tractor pulled the truck out which turned out to be a happy ending.
So after biking through the dense jungles of Chiapas and camping out in various places everynight, we have finally found ourselves in Guatemala. As soon as we crossed the boarder we realized that Guatemala is a little different compared to Mexico. The roads, the clothing, the food, the langauge, and the money have all changed.
So now we are currently in Coban, Guatemala trying to figure out where our adventure will bring us next.
On our second or third day of non stop bicycle riding from Cometan, Chiapas, we came across a construction site. Now at first I thought it would be just an average construction site, but I was totally wrong. Apparently the river washed out some of the road which meant that there were cars lined up on both sides of the road with no way to pass over. There was a huge tractor scooping up a bunch of dirt and filling in the road. After the tractor smoothed over the road they started to let cars pass. After some cars passed by our whole bicycle gang of 8 bicyclist passed over the road with no problem. After a brief moment of excitement and jumping around we heard crying and people screaming. We all turned around immediatly and saw that the road that just got packed in started to crumble, which made a pick up truck fall in the dirt partially. Everyone evactuated the truck safely before we arrived on the scene. Kipchoge and I and some of the rest of the gang started to run towards the truck. As I arrived to the scene people started yelling at me in Spanish and English saying they wanted to use my light and that they needed a large chain that was in the back of their truck. Without thinking I quickly jumped into the back of the truck which was halfway off the road trying to find a chain. Shortly after throwing everything around in the back of the truck frantickly, I found the chain and then carefully jumped out. They connected the chain to the tractor and the tractor pulled the truck out which turned out to be a happy ending.
So after biking through the dense jungles of Chiapas and camping out in various places everynight, we have finally found ourselves in Guatemala. As soon as we crossed the boarder we realized that Guatemala is a little different compared to Mexico. The roads, the clothing, the food, the langauge, and the money have all changed.
So now we are currently in Coban, Guatemala trying to figure out where our adventure will bring us next.
steve says "worcester's hills are not pimples! stop talking shit about worcester!"
ReplyDelete