San Salvador

i was pretty scared coming to san salvador. i had heard so many awfull things about it. but i dont know if its just the part of time im staying in but its a paradice compared to guatemala city. totaly night and day. so far it looks like any normal major city in a first world countrey. just with more guns. i know theres saposed to be huge getos lots of ruff areas, i guess i just lucked out and picked a good hotel to stay at. a wopping 8 dollers, what a treat lol.
im going to try again today to get a hold of some family of my brothers wife. i hope to spend some time with them, see san salvador from the perspective of some one who lives here. im really interested in some history about the war. the war kinda smaked me in the face pretty quickly, the woman who runs my hotel only has one arm, i dont think its too much to asume she lost it in the 80s.
the amount of guns i have seen here so far is insane. i think the best way to give derections would be, go down two blocks, hang a right at the guy with the shotgun, then a left at the prepubecent with the asult rifel and then to the end of the street where the dude has the 4 german sheperds and a well used atomatic rifel with an extra clip duck taped to the first.
honestly there are guys with guns every where. they drive around with all the delvery trucks, even some thing like a pepsi truck has at least one guy with a shotgun.
and the really weird thing is im already getting pretty used to it after traveling threw mexico and central america for the last 6 months.

so i spent an extra cuple nights in antigua visiting my old family i stayed with and i took there nebours out for dinner. there so poor, and i just love the two little girls, there so cute. it was so nice to take them out to a really nice restrant, hand them the menu and tell them they can order any thing they want. i took them out for ice cream too, you should have see the little girls eyes light up when she got a duble cone as big as her head. it makes me smile just thinking of that look.

even in antigua theres still violence though. for some reson i felt so safe there. its argubley one of the three nicest citys in all of the americas. theres hundreds of tourests every where. ppl come from all over the world to vacation there. but when my friend was out drinking three ppl got merdered right by the bar they where at. about two min from our hotel.
when i left the night before last i was a little nervus. my shutle bus was saposed to come and take me to guatemala city at 4 am. i was up well in time with a cuple friends who where catching simular busses to other places. theres where there right on time but after 30 min mine still wasent around. im standing outside with a few thousand dollors worth of gear and some drunk guy comes around the corner, he walks past, im just thinking how lucky i am becasue i dont want to deel with anything stupid tonight, and he turns around and of course asks me for money. i tell him no and we get into a big argument. using my broken spanish i try and dismiss him like we did the dogs around the lake. he doesnt like that very much but i dont give a dam. hes starting to piss me off. im not overly worried about him, hes so drunk i could have knocked him down really dam easly. then he says hes going to go get his gang. his friends live around the corner. great. its almost 5 in the morning and my bus still isnt around. and this guy is swearing at me and threating me becasue i wont give him a dollor. he stumbles off to go find some friends. im pretty sure he was so drunk he forgot i was there as soon as he turned around. but i was still releaved when my shutle pulled up.
i missed my bus from guatemala city to san salvador so i had to wait for the next one. crossing the border was fun as i new it would be. i seem to always be the last one in any line up and take the longest when it comes to this type of thing. i guess hardly speaking the language and not underestanding any of the derections probley has a part to play in it but what ever.
ive even learned to ignore all the dirty looks from every one when i get back on the bus. well at least they waited for me, which i really wasnt sure they would do the second time. between the two borders i probley made every one wait an exrta half our. not a good start to a new countrey.

its been an exciting cuple of days since i left the lake. but if my visa hadnt expired i would have stayed in san marcos la laguna for a cuple more months. its was so peacfull and calm there it almost felt like you could just forget about the out side world and setle there. almost.
i know setling is not for me, not yet at least. i am happy to be back on the road. i met a pretty girl from irland who i might be doing some traveling with, where heading in pretty much the same derection, witch is kinda unusual. most ppl i have met are eather doing a little circle threw guatemala and hundrus or going south to north threw the americas. the opasite derection. at least i have lots of good inside information on the palces i will be visiting.

well i best be going. i hope every is doing really well.
lots of love
mikkel