Bus trip to Mexico

[seguidordejesus]

I’d love any tips or advice you can give on this trip…if you have nothing to add, just pray!

Leaving Monday on a Greyhound bus for Monterrey, Mexico, where I’ll catch a plane to Villahermosa, Mexico. I’ll be mostly concentrating on the state of Chiapas and northern Guatemala on my trip. I’d like to meet up with a missionary down there, but I don’t know them, so I’ll just show up (I’ve become quite Mexican in the way I do things the past couple of years ). If you guys know anyone down that way, I’d appreciate any info. I'll be traveling around mostly by third-class busses and hopefully taking Mayan language lessons in Guatemala. I have many ideas about what I’d like to do, but have deliberately not planned anything so as to have maximum flexibility. The bus ride to El Salvador isn’t that long, either…I understand a few people have connections down there.

I’ll be gone about 4 weeks. My lovely wife was planning to go, but decided to stay home a few weeks ago and decorate our baby’s room (doesn’t want to catch malaria!).

Pray for both of our safety and health….

Seguidor de Jesus

[Hoovie]

Originally Posted by seguidordejesus

I’d love any tips or advice you can give on this trip…if you have nothing to add, just pray!

Leaving Monday on a Greyhound bus for Monterrey, Mexico, where I’ll catch a plane to Villahermosa, Mexico. I’ll be mostly concentrating on the state of Chiapas and northern Guatemala on my trip. I’d like to meet up with a missionary down there, but I don’t know them, so I’ll just show up (I’ve become quite Mexican in the way I do things the past couple of years ). If you guys know anyone down that way, I’d appreciate any info. I'll be traveling around mostly by third-class busses and hopefully taking Mayan language lessons in Guatemala. I have many ideas about what I’d like to do, but have deliberately not planned anything so as to have maximum flexibility. The bus ride to El Salvador isn’t that long, either…I understand a few people have connections down there.

I’ll be gone about 4 weeks. My lovely wife was planning to go, but decided to stay home a few weeks ago and decorate our baby’s room (doesn’t want to catch malaria!).

Pray for both of our safety and health….

Seguidor de Jesus

My friend is moving to Guatemala in a few months to start a missionary effort.


There are several of the Drost family in Mexico.

[Sis Santos]

My husband and I will be praying. Should try a bus trip to Brazil. J/K too dangerous

[seguidordejesus]

Originally Posted by Sis Santos

My husband and I will be praying. Should try a bus trip to Brazil. J/K too dangerous

I've thought about it, and may do it....that crazy Darien Gap is what stops most people!

[Sherri]

Originally Posted by seguidordejesus

I’d love any tips or advice you can give on this trip…if you have nothing to add, just pray!

Leaving Monday on a Greyhound bus for Monterrey, Mexico, where I’ll catch a plane to Villahermosa, Mexico. I’ll be mostly concentrating on the state of Chiapas and northern Guatemala on my trip. I’d like to meet up with a missionary down there, but I don’t know them, so I’ll just show up (I’ve become quite Mexican in the way I do things the past couple of years ). If you guys know anyone down that way, I’d appreciate any info. I'll be traveling around mostly by third-class busses and hopefully taking Mayan language lessons in Guatemala. I have many ideas about what I’d like to do, but have deliberately not planned anything so as to have maximum flexibility. The bus ride to El Salvador isn’t that long, either…I understand a few people have connections down there.

I’ll be gone about 4 weeks. My lovely wife was planning to go, but decided to stay home a few weeks ago and decorate our baby’s room (doesn’t want to catch malaria!).

Pray for both of our safety and health….

Seguidor de Jesus

I'll be praying! My daughter spent a month in Guatemala, on crutches no less!! God healed her while she was there though and she hung the crutches on the church wall and came home well! She loved her time there.

Did you get malaria pills? I just ordered them from our doctor today for our trip to the Philippines in July. We never had any side effects from them at all, although the stories can scare you.

[seguidordejesus]

Originally Posted by Sherri

I'll be praying! My daughter spent a month in Guatemala, on crutches no less!! God healed her while she was there though and she hung the crutches on the church wall and came home well! She loved her time there.

Did you get malaria pills? I just ordered them from our doctor today for our trip to the Philippines in July. We never had any side effects from them at all, although the stories can scare you.

I have not gotten any pills yet, but I was planning on going to the pharmacy tomorrow to look into it.

Great news about your daughter, though! Does she consider herself fluent in Spanish?

[Sherri]

Originally Posted by seguidordejesus

I have not gotten any pills yet, but I was planning on going to the pharmacy tomorrow to look into it.

Great news about your daughter, though! Does she consider herself fluent in Spanish?

Totally fluent. She minored in Spanish in college then spent a year in Costa Rica. She had already been in Costa Rica twice before for a month each time, and one month in Guatemala, so she is almost Latino. At least she thinks she is!! She definitely has a calling to the Latino culture. Her teachers all said that she thinks and sounds like she is a foreigner.

At her job at Mercy Ministries now in Nashville, she is in the international relations dept. and she does all the translating for the home in Peru. She is getting to go there this fall, so she's really excited about that!

There are two kinds of malaria meds, one you take daily and one you take weekly. We always get the weekly kind. The only people who cannot take it are ones who have suffered with depression or mental problems in the past. We took them the past two years, and (so far!!) haven't had any psychotic episodes!

[seguidordejesus]

Originally Posted by Sherri

Totally fluent. She minored in Spanish in college then spent a year in Costa Rica. She had already been in Costa Rica twice before for a month each time, and one month in Guatemala, so she is almost Latino. At least she thinks she is!! She definitely has a calling to the Latino culture. Her teachers all said that she thinks and sounds like she is a foreigner.

At her job at Mercy Ministries now in Nashville, she is in the international relations dept. and she does all the translating for the home in Peru. She is getting to go there this fall, so she's really excited about that!

There are two kinds of malaria meds, one you take daily and one you take weekly. We always get the weekly kind. The only people who cannot take it are ones who have suffered with depression or mental problems in the past. We took them the past two years, and (so far!!) haven't had any psychotic episodes!

Neat! Thanks for the input on the malaria meds.

[Sis Santos]

Originally Posted by seguidordejesus

I've thought about it, and may do it....that crazy Darien Gap is what stops most people!

What's the Darien Gap?

[seguidordejesus]

The jungle between Panama and Colombia that has no roads going through it. You can hike through it, if you want to get killed, but most people take a boat or plane to get around it.