Just a Thought from my ride through Guatemala City

== I´m sitting in traffic in Guatemala City, the place that i feared driving through, but i can´t stop thinking how great this is! It´s so full of energy, people, buildings, cars...life. A REAL CITY! Big cities always have this magnetic energy and they never really seem to vary from city to city or country to country...They´re big, busy, dirty, noisy, full of Fast food joints, car exhaust, more danger and most definately exciting. Within 15 miles I have seen 5 Mcdonalds (which deliver!), 3 Burger Kings, 2 fried chicken places, A pizza hut, a Domino´s and EVEN A LITTLE CEASER´s! Houses and hotels are piled right on top of each other... except here, they´re sitting on the top of a mountain (although you´d hardly know it when you´re in the city center). On the outskirts the housing is truly stacked, a shanty town, clinging to the edge of a steep and sharp mountain...these places are so densely packed and poor they looked like a greyish-brown wasteland spilling into and INSULTING the amazingly vibrant green that surrounds it. While i truly love my peaceful Copán, and other relaxed homey towns like it, I truly believe that part of my spirit, heart and soul will always long for and live in the City. ==