October 2nd, 2007

Hate to sound redundant, but today’s forecast doesn’t yield anything new other than more problems with the car. We were having the worst luck! Everything that could break – broke, and anything that could have gone wrong – went. Even as simple task of ordering a part to be delivered from Guat City (we gave them the part number and everything), resulted yet in another day of delays when instead of a generator they sent us a starter.

I could see how this was getting to the guys. gadikus and Rita were having to shave day after day out of their six week vacation and there were no signs of exhaust clouds on the horizon.

Frustrated and bored, we turned to Deter. Unfortunately, the German architect and owner of Café Yaxha knew nothing about cars (even German ones), but he did give us a number of a driver who took us not only to the ruins of Yaxha with monkeys swinging on jungle vines from tree to tree and the pyramids that made you understand what were the spaceships in films like Star-Gate based on, but also to the seldom visited, still in a stage of excavations, site of La Blanca where Spanish archeologists worked on uncovering something they call “graffiti” – ancient line drawings scratched in soft stone or stucco.

We observed the archeologists at work, putting transparencies to the walls and tracing the lines with different colored markers depending on the level of drawing clarity (doesn’t sound too exiting? Well, you just had to be there, I guess) and watched the locals dig into the soil to uncover step after step of once lost pyramids.

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