We Made it to Guate!

After almost 12 hours of traveling... WE MADE IT TO GUATEMALA!

We flew from Madison to Dallas, then Dallas to Guatemala City.
Our flights were on time and the the turbulence was minimal... I still had to pop a Zofran because i'm a baby and can't handle the tiniest bit of nausea. 

In Dallas, we ate as a group at TGI Fridays, had a few cocktails and talked about what we had planned for the next two weeks. All of us are getting along great and i'm excited to have these girls by my side!

Once we landed in Guatemala City, we picked up our luggage and headed to customs. I had to show my passport to a woman in order to pass through the gate... she kept saying "medico? medico?" I didn't know what she meant and just assumed she was asking me if I worked in the medical field so I said "si". Apparently she was asking me if I was a doctor. And I said yes. 

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As we drove from the airport to our "home base", I realized this country is nothing like i'd pictured... We asked our driver, Henry, to play his favorite music, and suddenly "Truly Madly Deeply" by Savage Garden was playing. There's either a McDonalds, Wendy's, Domino's, Burger King or a Pizza Hut on every corner - And I thought i'd have to live off of beans, rice and tortillas for two weeks, HA! I learned that "night clubs" are actually strip clubs, and that we aren't allowed to flush toilet paper down the toilet (it goes in the garbage can).

For now, i'm comfortably laying in my bunk bed, listening to dogs barking in the distance, and seeing the red and green lights coming from the police motorcycles down the road.

....signing off for the evening,

Sam Thomas, MD