{"id":130,"date":"2010-08-31T20:10:11","date_gmt":"2010-09-01T02:10:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/triciakarsay.com\/guatemala\/?p=130"},"modified":"2010-09-01T18:40:35","modified_gmt":"2010-09-02T00:40:35","slug":"estoy-aqui-perdida-y-cansada","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/triciakarsay.com\/guatemala\/estoy-aqui-perdida-y-cansada\/","title":{"rendered":"Estoy aqu\u00ed, perdida y cansada"},"content":{"rendered":"
Travel was really smooth.\u00a0 Made connection in San Salvador, no problem, bag didn\u00b4t get lost, even though the international airport in Guatemala City blew a transformer yesterday leaving the entire airport with no electricity.\u00a0 I\u00b4m still not entirely sure how planes are landing.\u00a0 Anyway, couldn\u00b4t believe how quickly I got on a bus\u00a0in Guatemala City headed for Quetaltenango (a.k.a. Xela, pron. shay-la,<\/em> shortened from the Quich\u00e9 Mayan Xelaju<\/em>).\u00a0 As soon as we left the sunny valley, torrential rain and a cold breeze followed us through the trip, but we still made it up here in 4 hours.<\/div>\n
Studying my map, I figured I\u00b4d have no problem finding my way from the Pullman bus station (I was too tired to deal with the sensory overload of a camioneta<\/em>).\u00a0 Since Xela is based on a grid,\u00a0I was sure that even on my most directionally-impaired\u00a0day, I\u00b4d be able to navigate this new small city without getting lost.\u00a0\u00a0 Yeah, right.\u00a0 I\u00b4m not sure when I became so deluded\u00a0in thinking that\u00a0I ever really know where I\u00b4m going.\u00a0\u00a0I may have gotten a bit cocky when I figured out that \u00a8north\u00a8 doesn\u00b4t mean \u00a8whatever\u00a0direction that\u00a0is in front of you\u00a8.\u00a0\u00a0 In Xela, avenidas<\/em> run north-south and calles<\/em> run east-west.\u00a0 Trouble is I had no idea what avenida<\/em> or calle<\/em> I was on.\u00a0 Sometimes I would think I was on a calle<\/em> but was really on an avenida<\/em>…and forget about zona<\/em> 1 and zona <\/em>3.\u00a0 Quisiera saber donde\u00a0est\u00e1<\/em> zona <\/em>2???<\/div>\n
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Restaurante en 12a Avenida y 3a Calle<\/p><\/div>\n

Anyway, I walked around for two hours in the wrong zona<\/em>, on the wrong avenida<\/em> looking for the wrong calle<\/em>.\u00a0\u00a0In the rain.\u00a0 Finally a taxi driver approached the hopelessly lost version of me and directed me to the area I wanted to be in, which I\u00a0definitely\u00a0WAS NOT in.\u00a0 \u00a0I understood his Spanish directions perfectly and finally ended up near the\u00a0Parque Centroam\u00e9rica,<\/em> where I found a clean hotel for $6\/night–Hotel Moriani, on 12a avenida<\/em> y 2a calle<\/em> (or is it 2a avenida<\/em> y 12 calle<\/em>?)<\/p>\n

After dropping my bags, I set out to figure out this crazy grid system and got lost again.\u00a0 I\u00b4m\u00a0blaming it on being really, really tired and really, really hungry, because even I couldn\u00b4t be this confused.\u00a0 When I finally found my street again, I decided to stick to a three block straight line from it, making sure I could at least see the corner of the block where my hotel is.\u00a0 Found a cute little restaurant that served traditional Xela dishes, had some pepi\u00e1n de pollo con tamalitos y sopa,<\/em> yuuummmmm, then came to this cafe to post.\u00a0 Yes, I can still see my hotel from here.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Anyway, I walked around for two hours in the wrong zona, on the wrong avenida looking for the wrong calle..<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,4,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-130","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-backpacking","category-quetzaltenango","category-studying-spanish"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/triciakarsay.com\/guatemala\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/triciakarsay.com\/guatemala\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/triciakarsay.com\/guatemala\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/triciakarsay.com\/guatemala\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/triciakarsay.com\/guatemala\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=130"}],"version-history":[{"count":27,"href":"https:\/\/triciakarsay.com\/guatemala\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":157,"href":"https:\/\/triciakarsay.com\/guatemala\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130\/revisions\/157"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/triciakarsay.com\/guatemala\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=130"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/triciakarsay.com\/guatemala\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=130"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/triciakarsay.com\/guatemala\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=130"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}