Today started bright and early with a breakfast in the Lufassa Power Station canteen. Surprisingly, the breakfast of beans, fried bananas, chicken and tortillas turned out to be among the best food we’ve had so far. Once we had eaten, we had the opportunity to meet Troy who was the engineer responsible for keeping this [...]

Today it was unfortunate that we had to leave the great El Salvadorian hospitality, but after a day’s delay we were itching to hit the road and continue our journey along the one and only Pan-American Highway! And so with our armed police escort back with us, we drove out of San Salvador in just [...]

Our plan for Monday was to spend the day with KPMG meeting their small local staff of 60, and having appearances with the press in several locations around San Salvador. As I mentioned in the previous blog, despite the short time spent with them, the atmosphere around KPMG here was very relaxed and family-like, and [...]

After waking up and preparing ourselves for the day by feasting on the largest breakfast buffet we had ever seen, we rendezvoused at the university to pick up the car and our escort, comprising of police, university students and professors. The plan today was to drive the 160 miles into San Salvador, the capital city [...]

Today we were not schedule to drive anywhere, and had planned with the university to deliver a presentation to a large crowd of students and journalists, with the British Consul coming along as well. And so, at 10am, we arrived at the event where the car was all clean after the night before, and was [...]

After our nervous experience before crossing US-Mexican border and our subsequent discovery that everything actually went very smoothly, we were very relaxed about the forthcoming border crossing into Guatemala. We had Francisco and crew from UMG, a Guatemalan university, helping us across the border, and we also had a short leg of only 180 miles [...]

Today we pushed ourselves to the limit of exhaustion, and it was, by far, the most tired we had been on the trip so far. We had gone to sleep at 7am the “night” before, out if necessity rather than desire I can assure you, and by 9am we were up again to meet the [...]

As you may recall from the previous blog post, last night was really tiring and frustrating, and the road blocks combined with the charging problems and the very early start had pushed us close to the limit of exhaustion. We needed a long sleep to catch up! Unfortunately, this was not possible as we had [...]

With the delay caused by the late arrival of the shock absorbers, we had very little time left to complete our schedule in Mexico and to get to Guatemala in time for all our scheduled press events. So with this in mind, we convened in the hotel’s lobby at 6am ready to drive the short [...]

As you may have read in the previous post, we had enjoyed a very pleasant night out with the KPMG ladies, and we needed a well deserved sleep to catch up on all the sleepless nights we’d had. But we still had things to do, and it was after only 5 hours that we were [...]