This morning as I enjoyed my daily constitutional I was reading our guidebook about Suchitoto. Our current plan is to arrive San Salvador at the culo-crack of dawn Saturday morning and directamente subimos al colectivo para Suchitoto. Well, in my reading this morning I found three things:
- The plan is perfect, Saturday hosts a year round fair - perfecto!
- Directions in Suchitoto are weak
- The plan has to change
Plan is perfect
Turns out that Suchitoto was once a major city and is near a capital city for a while, though now it is mostly artists in the town and farmers who were displaced by the building of a reservoir who are now fisherman. That sounds pretty decent and the many museums and artisan studios sound enticing, but the day that sounds most important is Saturday. We knew that Saturday and Sunday would be an important day for our trip to find local markets and we have 3 Saturdays in country, but just 2 Sundays and trying to fit our agenda in and get to the right places on those days is a concern. Fortunately, Suchitoto is only 47km away from San Salvador so we should be able to make it there pretty quickly after bajamos del avion. Having events on Sautrday all year at the Teatro de Las Ruinas sounds like we should be able to have a perfect welcome into El Salvador on our first day. However, where the hell is the Tetro de Las Ruinas? And thus begins my list of places to bookmark...
Directions in Suchitoto are weak
So, as I'm reading places to go there are directions like "From the Church, go South on this street for a while, then make a left, then go past a smoldering garbage dump, then knock on the door of the house and a kid inside will guide you to the waterfalls". Well, that just doesn't sit very well with me. I'm a geek. A mi me gusta la tecnologia. So, I'm finally going to get myself a GPS. For Christmas Nikki did some research on GPS and gave me permission to buy a GPS. She knows that I like the research almost as much as the owning of a gadget so she often gets me permission to get something instead of the actual item - it's a nice deal. My initial research was that I want a GPS that will have
- colored maps down to the street level so I can walk/drive/bike in new cities more confidently
- decent coverage in dense forest and urban canyons
- to be able to load/unload maps and waypoints and paths into a computer to share with others
- something small enough that I won't mind having it in my pocket
- not to spend a ton
It looks like Garmin map software and support is the best, which is somewhat important to me so I'm pretty set on Garmin at the moment. Since doing my research Garmin has