Stars realigning

After a waste of a week a surprise visit from Teresa brought me some awesome news. Teresa is from El Cacao, one of the communities I'll be visiting. She is in nursing school and works at the health center in Rio Grande. Gloria, hence forth known as my angel, has been keeping tabs on me through Teresa. I'm pretty sure it's my angel's fault that Teresa turned up at my hotel today to tell me that her brother, who knows how to drive a motorcycle, is off from work until July and would be happy to drive me around. Hallelujah! Time for some surveys!

I also stopped by the motorcycle shop to talk about my non-starting motorcycle. The shop owner told me there was only supposed to be a tiny amount of oil on the dip stick when you checked it. He also coached me that the choke needed to be pressed when starting the engine. I'll admit that I noticed that Gustavo only pressed the choke sporadically when he was trying to start the engine. My bike does look different from his. Additionally, he told me that the bike can take regular or super gasoline (although super is better). That means I didn't ruin my motorcycle some how with the wrong type of gas!! I'm not sure you can ruin an engine with the wrong type of gas, but when the bike wouldn't start I immediately started envisioning all of the ways I could have destroyed a brand new motorcycle. Cross your fingers that I just need to press the choke and my bike will return to life! And if you're lucky I'll post a pic next week.