For the first time this trip, we got picked up on time. It was 5:33 am when our ride picked us up from our hostel to take us to the bus station. He drove like a bat out of hell to get there... god knows why, because we just sat there in the bus for, like, an hour. Finally we left and our bus proceeded to stop for the most random things. I'm not even sure WHAT we were stopped for most of the time, but at least a couple times it was so the driver's assistant could buy the driver food. And once so the assistant could buy some watermelon.
Now, this trip would have been bad enough if it had been as advertised: 9 hours from Santa Elena, Guatemala, to San Salvador, El Salvador, arriving around 3 pm. As 3 pm approached and we had yet to reach the Guatemalan border, it became abundantly clear that we were not adhering to this schedule.
At least the ride was reasonably safe (at least by Guatemalan standards... I think we only had one or two near-miss collisions) and we didn't have any trouble at the border.
Unfortunately, we arrived in San Salvador around 6pm, when night was beginning to fall. I don't know if you know anything about this city but it scares the crap out of me. For serious. We caught a cab to our lovely hotel (twice the price of any place we've stayed in but TOTALLY AWESOME. You know what I said about the trifecta? This place tops it because it also has air con and shampoo. And a TV. We couldn't ask for anything else to have while we hide indoors from the very sketchy San Salvador night).
Regardless, we won't be here long - our cabbie (Oscar) is coming to get us at 4:30 tomorrow morning and we will head to the bus station and pray it is open and has seats for us for the bus to Managua. 12 hours... at least in advertising.
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