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 ...