Guatemala - A Novel Journey Begins

I'm rubbing the tired out of my eyes and washing it out of my brain with a freshly brewed pot of coffee. I arrived in Guatemala City last night around 9:30pm. My mission today is different from that mission that has awaited me in Guatemala City for the last five years. I won't make the mad dash journey east to Zacapa with bins, boxes and bags of prosthetic parts. At least, not yet. Today I'm getting supplies. Greg and Pat have biked for 70 days now from Oregon to the Southern Mexican state of Chiapas and are only a day away from the Guatemalan border. For their safety and in a show of support and admiration I'll be escorting them through Guatemala all the way to the ROMP clinic in Zacapa. I'm the logistics man, or as I like to think of it, the fifth Beatle. I'm off to breakfast and then a run to Hiper Paiz (Walmart's mega store chain in Guatemala) for gatorade, snacks a cooler, bike supplies and the daily ration of carbonated alcoholic grain juice.....BEER! No worries. Looks like I'll be seeing Greg and Pat tomorrow and will have plenty of photos and soon video to post. In the meantime be sure to read their own blog post Riding for ROMP 2010

Dave