Esquintla

i've been hanging out with peter a bunch, and it's been really awesome. everyone keeps asking me if he's my brother, which is cool. today we were biking along, and this truck piled high with watermelons passed us, and peter was all, "man, it be awesome if that truck stopped and gave us a watermelon." and they totally did. it was so great. we each ate half a watermelon, and it was just the best watermelon ever. sweet, crisp, juicy... then we went swimming in the river. our next plan is to buy cheap plastic rafts and try to raft down the river. the current is pretty strong. sometimes bike touring just seems like the best thing ever because it doesn't matter what you do. if you want to stop and eat watermelon under a bridge and swim in your stupid spandex bike shorts, you totally can.
tomorrow we're going to be in tapachula and then the next day guatemala. i'm really excited to get to another country. it seems like we've been in mexico forever! right now we're in this town called escuintla, and right before we got to the hotel, i saw this guy who had a three wheeled tricycle taxi and he had a flat. i helped him fix it, and he was super happy because there isn't a bike repair place in escuintla and he didn't have a patch kit or anything. he had never seen tire irons before. the wheels were bolted on and he just tipped the whole thing over in the street to fix the flat. anyways, he said he wanted to give me a tour of the town, and so i got a ride in the bike taxi. it was pretty sweet. he said it weighs a lot and sometimes really fat ladies want rides and that sucks. anyways, hope everyone's doing good. i'm not sick anymore and am totally biking at a reasonable pace. love,
-jessie