29 April, 2009

Sparky in El Salvador

Once again from Don.....

"Sparrow King travelled about 283 km (176 mi) in the past 2 days, and is currently in El Salvador. His only 2 Doppler signals today are both 0-qual and indicate that he also backtracked several km toward the city of San Salvador, but I would be somewhat skeptical about that given the low signal quality."

So he has slowed a bit.

He is now somewhere in the mountainous volcano region of Central America. Heavy tropics here with lots of high green ridges, deep valleys and tortuous roads.

If these low quality Doppler signals are to be believed, he may be on a high ridge overlooking the shores of Lago Ilopango, the largest lake in El Salvador and a giant volcanic crater.

It is also just a few miles east of the capitol city of San Salvador.