Patience patience

As the heading suggests a tad more patience is required.  At 4 this afternoon on the last returning bus unfortunate news was brought to us – Xela the second largest city here,  does not have the seals either!!! Bartolo the owner of the bus company (and the Beetle) is off to the big city “Gautemala” tomorrow, he’s on a mission to locate them himself.  I wish him good luck!!   If this fails it will have to be second-hand rebuilt hydraulic pumps from bus spare dealers, modified of course.

On the upside Bartolo gave me the choice of  2 bus shells.  Having thoroughly investigated them, we chose “Lupita” for the size and sideways sliding action of her windows as you can see, Emilia approves too!  Also  the bus-yard is ready to start work as soon as we return from the Peten.  However on the downside he casually informed me it would take a month to complete!!

“A month?” I cry aghast “We don’t have that amount of time.”  This has forced me to reconsider our plans and I must confes it does look like a spot more work than I had at first thought. Time to adopt a new line of thinking.  We shall……  Fix the clutch, revise brakes, fill up with diesel and head for Peten  ASAP. Once there whe shall investigate new 4×4 adventure routes, remove campershell and have the coachwork done in Peten.  Sadly this means probably not the old familiar schoolbus we had in mind as there are’nt so many in the northern regions but a bus shell anyway we shall have either way!  Perhaps a smaller one and we could still dress it up to look like a schooli?  Only time will tell..more tomorrow, hopefully from a mobile Oso….