We take the Alamo bus line from Guatemala City to Xela, about a 4+ hour trip. It’s a route filled with hair-pin curves as we head into the western highlands of the country up to about 7,500′.

These are previous life Greyhound buses from the US but they’re still in pretty good shape. Finally coming into Xela and starting to navigate narrow streets, our driver was stymied by a loose wire dangling down blocking his path.

All buses here have an assistant so our assistant got out, tried to figure how to move the cable, couldn’t succeed, so he started to cut it, but to no avail!  It wouldn’t cut!  Finally, after about 5 minutes, blocking traffic and honking horns behind us, the assistant jumped back in and the driver simply and slowly drove into the cable, tore it down and kept on going.  Wish I had a picture of that!  This is the junction of wires to our apartment building – very common here!