The Wanderings of busman7

OK rested up from the bus trip & moved out of hotel into hostel,   feel almost human again so can give first impressions.

The first thing you notice when arriving by bus is the bus station is the first decent all buses go to the same station in a relatively decent part of town, a first since Mexico City. All the other capitol cities had about 4 different stations for different companies & they weren’t in any where near the best part of town, with the exception of Tica bus as  even first class Lina Dorada was right in the heart of Guatemala City’s district 4.

The first hotel was in an area of cheaper ($40/night) lodgings in a not bad section not far from the bus station but the hostel Spanish school combination is another 15 minutes out in a nice part of the city. Think I subcounsly missed my stop in David as there is an open house here for people like me interested in retiring here tomorrow & I was kind of wanting to make it any way so now I am registered & will be going. Still have 10 days or so here & it’s only 440km so that’s a nice 1 day bus trip & it will kill 3 or 4 days but doubt I will be buying 1 of the $1,000,000 estate lots in a  gated community in Boquette that were being advertised on TV last night.

So far Panama looks interesting but has  to be pretty good to match Antigua as I have no use for cities much preferring the smaller towns with a max of about 65,000 but time will tell as of now I am still open but looks like between Guatemala &  Panama with El Salvador &    Nicaragua runners up LOL.

So it’s Panama open house tomorrow then the obligatory tour of the Canal   after all it would be kind of silly to be here & miss that as it looked pretty awesome from where the bus crossed over it on the way in. Then???? 

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