Blogs from Danlí, Central, Honduras, Central America Caribbean

I decided that I could wait no longer to continue my travels so I decided to move on. I was fairly warned that travel might be difficult due to the Easter holiday but I was confident that I was prepared to improvise if necessary. I should not have worried. The Wendys in Siguatepeque was open so I ate a quick lunch there and pressed on toward the capital. I got stopped at a police checkpoint at the top of a mountain pass where I had to take my first-ever breathalyzer test. I scored cero punto cero which by sheer coincidence is exactly equal to Blutarskys GPA in another time, place, circumstance, and language. I dreaded driving through the capital but it turned out to be not so bad. I got gas there and faithfully followed the ... read more

February 17, 2011 We crossed the border from Guatamala to Honduras on Valentine's day ("Dia D'amore") without too much trouble except for the usual snarl of "tramitadores" (men/boys offering assistance for a price). On the Honduran side, the border official insisted we remove the front license plate which we had attached before we left Nova Scotia -- it said "Brasil" and had been a gift from our Brazilian exchange student, Eduardo. The plate was confiscated. Apparently it is a crime to have non-matching front and rear plates. The countryside in Honduras has been beautiful -- mountainous, full of dry hills and tall pines. A lot of it looks like the BC Kootenays. The roads have been highly variable -- some great divided highway, some ox tracks. We have been stopped by the national police at every ... read more