Early morning flight from Georgetown, Guyana to Suriname. (no problem so far) Then the "seanic drive" to Kourou, French Guyane. This is where the problems began. We were picked up in a minivan taxi with a "guide" . The van shocks had been shot for years, and so had the road. After 20 minutes, the road disappeared. Ok, it didn't disappear the pavement stoppped and the potholes and wash boards began. And the driver liked to travel at 110 kph to 120 kph. Driving down the middle of the road most of the time, passing anywhere. This is the main road east to west in the country. Erik, think of the road from Honduras to Guatemala.
Finally after 4 hours of gut wrentching jolts, we arrived at the river which forms the border with French Guyane. We left our minivan and driver, took a dugout canoe over the river (Timm, think Marajo Island) And then we were in France. The other countries gained independence earlier in my life but this is still a French colony. And it is FRENCH. Euros only. ATTITUDE. This is France, we not speek de English. (English pig dogs) But it was very clean for litter. Our "guide" picked up his oun car to drive us the 3 hours into the country to hour hotel. (Shar, think Cartegena taxi) On the road he had a tire blow out, AC did not work very well, could hardly understand him. Whew. More later, the line is backing up for the computer.
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