Sat 19 Jul 2008
Day 308
Flores, Guatemala
My car had been making some scrapping noises in Belize when I was driving with Vanessa, seems like the brakes were on the way out. Stupidly I only just thought about getting them fixed since I was always giving lifts to people. I had a very hot day over the bridge with the crazy ex-punk Kara alternating trips to the garage where they had my car jacked up fixing the front brakes and to the local bank with the Western Union office. Kara was in an even worse state than I was over the weekend when I was down to only Q6 (less than a dollar) and only 97p showing in my bank account.
My own fault for not remember to transfer some money before I left Caye Caulker. At least I had some emergency dollars to fall back on, Kara couldn’t even afford water and she had a bad hangover on Sunday. The hostel is now filled with people I don’t know, mostly Dutch and English so I think I will be moving on very soon.
Los Amigos is a great place to hang out and take a few days to process my photos, it might be perfect if it had free wireless Internet but then I wouldn’t get anything done as I would be either surfing or lending my laptop to other people. I had some problems uploading my last few entries to my blog using Live Writer, which is how I write all my posts offline, but upgrading to WordPress 2.6 seems to have fixed it. It also kept the layout of my blog the same which didn’t happen the last time I upgraded. I messed around with the layout so much that getting it to look like it does now would be a major pain.
I spent some time playing with Photoshop too, trying to figure out how to watermark my photographs. You can see the results above which will be the standard from now on. I need to drive some traffic to my site and its no good taking a good shot and then no one knowing where to go to get some more.
