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We woke refreshed, after a peaceful night and were ready to leave our nice free spot by around 8am (Not something we do very often!). After nearly getting stuck on the loose rocks by the river, we bumped our way back into town on the dirt road. The ferry to Utila was due to leave at 9am, but we needed to buy tickets and wanted to give ourselves plenty of time. The system was a little backwards and we definitely needed that hour, bouncing back and forth between multiple places

We had learnt from previous experiences, that it was a bad idea to arrive at the border midday. We were still carrying around a large amount of Guatemalan quetzals as our El Salvador border crossing had been at a time when all the money exchange people were on lunch.  The problem with the El Poy border crossing, was that it was several hours away from anything. In the middle of the mountains, this was predominantly a trucker border and so it was after a steady three hour driv