Well, we didn’t get off to a very good start. I had set my gps for a route and Bill had set his with Google maps. The two didn’t agree. Bill followed his which took us over tiny roads to a village and then up and down narrow village streets full of people, dogs, horses, donkeys, you name it. When we were faced with a cow path through a coffee plantation as our only option forward, Bill told me to take over the navigation.My gps got us up out of the village and onto a halfway decent road. The scenery was beautiful as we began ascending into the mountains.I have no mount for my phone when I’m using it as a gps so I put it away when we have a long distance between turns. Unfortunately this caused us to miss our next turn and we ended up way above the lake we were headed for instead of under it.This added time to our trip but the scenery was worth it.The roads are often really beaten up in this area. There are road crews busy filling the holes with rocks and then pouring cement over them. They protect the new cement by surrounding it with tree branches and rocks painted white. As it there weren’t enough hazards on the road to be avoided!Occasionally members of the road crew stop cars to as for money for drinks. The young boys also try this trick but I don’t think I ever saw any of them actually do any work. We got stopped once by a crew of men. They asked for 6 Quetzales, which is about a dollar.
