Boders and busses, corbodas and rum

Here is our updated MAP, it´s getting pretty impressive.

The last entry was back in Antigua and since then we have traveled in a bus from Guatemala city to San Benito in El Slavador where we stayed for one night. San Benito is basically exactly like a town in the US near an airport and is filled with American restaurants and hotels, not much indigenous culture. We met a guy who owns a restaurant there and he used to live in DC and work on the A/C in the FBI building. And he was a chef as well, he made us a teacup of some really good soup. We didn´t get to see much in El Salvador, but thats life on the road.
The next day we had the final 12 hour bus ride down the Pacific side of El Salvador and then Honduras, and then back out of Honduras into Nicaragua. The bus stopped in Managua which is the biggest city in Nicaragua and we then took a public bus to Granada.
Granada is pretty similar to Antigua in a lot of ways. Old colonial style buildings, some fancy restaurants. We stayed at a hospedaje called Esfringe, which is a very difficult word to say and casused some occasional confusion with cab drivers, but no major troubles. It was extremely hot and humid, and they have rolling blackouts across the whole country from 7-10 at night. We were not aware of that at first and it was a bit scary walking down strange Nicaraguan streets at night and then having all the lights suddenly turn off. They also turn off the water from 8 in the morning till around 11.
We have now switched to using Cordobas here which are worth about 5 cents US each. Granada was interesting and it had a lot of old churches to look at but, we only stuck around for 3 days and then headed towards San Juan Del Sur which is a surf town on the Pacific Coast.
We went to the beach and went swimming yesterday and met some people there who we went out with last night. Flor de Caña is made here and it is very inexpesnsive, it´s a rum. So now we are here plotting our next move, trying to figure out the bus situation so we can head up back into Honduras to La Ceiba and then take a boat to Utila where we will finally do some SCUBA diving, which we have been talking about for quite a while.
We are looking forward to the diving and also coming back home and staying in one place for a little while. Unfortunately they do not stamp passports here when you are traveling only within Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, and Nicaragua so we will come back with only one stamp after all of this. Hopefully everyone will believe that we actually went to all of these places.
Well, that is all for now and we are excited to see everyone again. Hasta Luego.