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  • by Roberto Rocha
  • published from Canada
  • on 2009.03.28

The Guatemala index

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Total number of days: 24
Number of countries visited: 1
Number of countries expected to visit: 3
Number of different beds slept on: 9

Number of times hitchhiked: 4
Percentage of hitchhikes I had to pay for: 25%
Number of offers to spend the night at someone’s house: 2
Number of times accepted: 1

Ratio of meals from street food to restaurants to self-prepared foods: 6:1:1
Best street food: churrasquito with chorizo, beans, cabbage and tortillas in Cobán.
Cost of said meal: $2
Worst street food: pork tacos in Panajachel, Atitlán (it was still pretty good).
Number of beers consumed: 13
Best Guatemalan beer: tie – Gallo and Moza
Best rum sampled: Zacapa 23 years
Number of nights I got stupid drunk: 1

Odds of getting a horrible tropical disease as inferred by the dire warnings of my paranoid, fear-mongering quack of a “doctor”: 3:1
Horrible tropical diseased contracted: 0
People I met who contracted said diseases: 0
Cases of food poisoning: 0
Number of types of medication taken: 3 (malaria pills, analgesic, allergy pills)
Number of times I felt in any kind of danger: 1 (falling off a motorcycle)

Number of intense 2-3-day friendships made: 11
Number of natural wonders witnessed: 5
Number of injuries suffered: 4
Ratio of time spent talking in Spanish to English: 1:3
Chances, in percentage, that I’ll visit this part of the world again: 100

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