March 8, 2011

On the road for another border crossing into Honduras. The border was quiet and with Jaun and a helper's help it only took 2 hours to immigrate and only $100+ dollars. These border have fees for everything…. Off down the road.  Honduras is very dry, with many trees leafless and grasses burnt because the rainy season was 3 months ago.  Towns and people look like people from Peru and poverty is more evident, but people on the sides of roads have smiles, and we get lights flashed at us and waves and thumbs up as we pass. Got into Tegucigalpa where we were warned by one of the guys on the boat that this town is the most dangerous town in the world. Do you know how many people have told us about the most dangerous city in the world and they have all been different? Needless to say, we still have to be on guard. We entered town and Juan asked for directions as I was trying to decipher my GPS map route because the GPS doesn't like this town, it draws straight lines in basic directions. Juan takes off after a car that gave him directions and we loose him. After trying to find him and then waiting in plain sight at a gas station, we head off on our quest to find the Copan Ruines. After about an hour and a half of driving on CA5 that is currently under construction in a major way, we are far enough out of town, we pull over to make plans for where to stay for the night and who pulls up…Juan! To the next town of Comayagua and pull into a hotel with great parking, negotiate a room price, look outside and it has a welcome looking pool. After riding in 99.8ºf heat for most of the day, this pool was the first priority right after our first beer as we were checking in….Got another delivered to us in the pool. This is the life!