Rio Dulce

Rio Dulce puerto cuidad to the Atlantic

Carpinteria Duarte (Guatemala Haverty's)

So, when I blogged Friday that we were about to file windows with Raul but I speculated that that project would be derailed . . . it was.  Josue showed up and said that that day was the best day to go shop for the furniture.  Okay.  And, the only places to buy the furniture that we had said that we wanted was in Puerto Barrios and Rio Dulce.  Both cities that are a few hours away.  Sigh.  Off we went.  Rosemery (our sweet friend from the streets the other night - long story) was recruited to stay with the kids and we loaded up and headed east.  What would have been a 45 minute drive in the metroplex was 3 hours here.  All roads are only one lane each way.  Mountains, trucks, pedestrians.  A closed bridge which cost us an hour . . . viola, Rio Dulce.  We were looking for a certain type of hand made furniture made out of the Santa Maria tree.  Cool stuff.  Craftsman made, each piece.  One sofa like this in the states would easily cost thousands . . . here we got a six foot sofa, four foot loveseat, one chair, three tables and three stools all for $3,000Q (about $400 U.S.)  Other types of imported furniture here is really expensive and really cheap and ratty looking.  This stuff is amazing.  Sturdy.  Which, in a house that is going to raise doce orphans, solido is muy bueno.
We loaded the truck with all it could hold.  We will have to come back for the rest.
Going home in the dark took us 4 hours.  More road work.  We sat completely stopped for 1 1/2 hours.  In the dark.  Next to the aldea (village) of Pepesca a very well known village.  One that you have to have an invitation and an escort to enter.  In the dark.  Josue knows a lot of things.  I am glad that he was with us . . .

A place to sit . . .  ahhhhhh.