{"id":23,"date":"2010-12-27T21:40:57","date_gmt":"2010-12-27T21:40:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.blakeboles.com\/travels\/?p=23"},"modified":"2011-01-08T20:00:00","modified_gmt":"2011-01-09T01:00:00","slug":"a-flores","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blakeboles.com\/travels\/2010\/12\/a-flores","title":{"rendered":"A Flores"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Seven AM, the hostel manager told us. Seven AM is the only bus from Guatemala City to Flores. So after a scant\u00a0 few hours of sleep we dutifully got up at five-thirty, which is three-thirty west coast time, and hopped a taxi to the bus station only to discover that the bus in fact leaves at 10 AM. Ahh, travel. How I&#8217;ve missed you.<\/p>\n<p>Luckily we found the bus terminal &#8220;restaurant&#8221; which the manager also assured us about:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.blakeboles.com\/travels\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/IMG_0007-1024x768.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-26\" title=\"IMG_0007 (1024x768)\" src=\"http:\/\/www.blakeboles.com\/travels\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/IMG_0007-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"717\" height=\"538\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.blakeboles.com\/travels\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/IMG_0007-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.blakeboles.com\/travels\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/IMG_0007-1024x768-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 717px) 100vw, 717px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>To her credit, the single woman managing the restaurant whipped us up some awesome eggs with refried black beans, fresh tortillas, and a side of cream. $2.50.<\/p>\n<p>The rest of our day was spent on the 9-hour bus ride from Guatemala City to the northern island city of Flores. When we thankfully stepped off the bus, the weather was a perfect 68 degrees with a cool breeze. The island is mostly filled with gringos and apparently well-off Guatemalan families.<\/p>\n<p>Our hostel dropped our reservation so we stayed at another next door. A few more doors down we dined on some lasagna, burritos, and a fresh local fish for yours truly.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.blakeboles.com\/travels\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/IMG_0007-800x600.jpg\"><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.blakeboles.com\/travels\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/IMG_0008-800x600.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-28\" title=\"IMG_0008 (800x600)\" src=\"http:\/\/www.blakeboles.com\/travels\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/IMG_0008-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.blakeboles.com\/travels\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/IMG_0008-800x600.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.blakeboles.com\/travels\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/IMG_0008-800x600-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Make sure to check out yesterday&#8217;s updated post for pictures of our travel crew!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Seven AM, the hostel manager told us. Seven AM is the only bus from Guatemala City to Flores. So after a scant\u00a0 few hours of sleep we dutifully got up at five-thirty, which is three-thirty west coast time, and hopped a taxi to the bus station only to discover that the bus in fact leaves [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-guatemala"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blakeboles.com\/travels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blakeboles.com\/travels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blakeboles.com\/travels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blakeboles.com\/travels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blakeboles.com\/travels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.blakeboles.com\/travels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":256,"href":"https:\/\/www.blakeboles.com\/travels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23\/revisions\/256"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blakeboles.com\/travels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blakeboles.com\/travels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blakeboles.com\/travels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}