We arrived in Guatemala City after the brief flight down. It feels like we're very far away from home, but actually it's closer than either New York or Los Angeles. The airport has signs all over saying that it will shortly be the finest airport in Central America. In the meantime, construction has made the already tiny airport diminutive.
We were met by Regina, a friend of Dr. Cabrera-Mesa (an attending neonatologist at TCH from Guatemala who helped setup the hospitalito). We had a brief tour of Guatemala City (which people here refer to as Guatemala or just Guate). Se saw the main public hospital, the main church, and some graffiti: "Assassinate Bush." The city is crowded, dirty, and depressing, though the driving habits of the locals ensured we were in peak fight-or-flight mode. Regina got us to the bus station without incident, giving our adrenals a break, and ensured we had the right bus and specifically told the driver where to stop to let us off.
Guatemala has relatively few 1st class long distance bus companies. Each one has staked out a highway leading out of Guatemala City and only have runs to the end of that highway and back to Guate. This simplifies things for us touristas, except when you have to go somewhere other than the City from outside the City, since all of the different bus companies have terminals in different parts of Guate.
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