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3000 miles later and I've made it too my destination in Guatemala [well I made it back on the 6th, but this is my first post since then, sorry for the delay :)]. My travels through Mexico and Guatemala were mostly without complication. And by 'mostly' I mean that nothing went wrong...until I was on a steep, narrow, winding road with no shoulder and my brake tube snapped. Talk about a gut wrenching moment. I was around 5 hours from my destination  of Jocotenango, Guatemala. As I was coming around a bend, I noticed a line of deep potholes--all lined up perfectly with my driver side wheel. It was too late to swerve by the time I noticed them and I guess the impact was a little too much for el carro. And my brake pedal began bottoming out. Thankfully, within 0.5 a kilometer there was a turn in the road with a large enough area that I could pull off the road safely. The 10 or so kilometers before that had nothing. Other than the overwhelming feeling of needing to vom...