I am using a espanol keyboard. It is making typing very difficult as many of the keys have moved.

Ahhhh... 4 days of relaxion. I stayed in the town San Pedro. The big excitement of the day was to sit in the sun at Nick{s Place, the restaurant nearest the dock and sip $.80 beers while watching to see if any cute girls got off the boat. Nights got a little more exciting, free movies at 7pm every night and the bar above nicks seemed to have a rave at any excuse, complete with space cakes. The rave seemed a bit out of place in a little town in the middle of nowhere guatemala, but the israeli dj was very good .

Other excitement - heading up into the town, snacking on good $.14 tamales, watching the locals dressed in very colorful woven mayan garb and shopping in the marcado.

The big excitement - armed robbery in the hills. Two groups of tourist climbing the mountain were robbed at gunpoint. 3 men, one with an old machine gun and two with machetes, stopped the groups and demanded their money, watches, backpacks and cameras. We met a guidebook writer, writing for Fodors and told him the story. I dont think that San Pedro will get a particularly good writeup in Fodors. This may be the only thing that keeps this place from becoming overly touristy - they have already began nicely paving one of the streets. Personally, Im thinking of printing up t-shirts that read "I climbed volcano san pedro and had 200 quetzales taken by armed bandits."

Last note - In Antigua they measure their mixed drinks, in San Pedro they pour really, really heavy.

Shopping today and sending a box full of purchases home. Tommorow Im headign into El Salvador. And... Im still looking for a hotel in Rio.