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San Petro Sula, 25 marzo 1990. I watch this arid central-american world go by from the closed environment of an old and crappy honduran bus, on the way to San Petro Sula. I'm the only gringo aboard and I'm probably just as smelly as the local indios and latinos I travel with. My jeans, my shirt, my face and hair, covered in a light brown residue of sand caused by the dust of the unpaved road that blows in through the glassless windows, my bum is sore after nearly three hours of sitting on this wooden bench. Outside is tropical jungle [View Full Entry]

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We got up at 6am and set of to the bus station for the 7am bus. we found our way to Ocotal and changed bus for the border crossing. We reached and crossed the border really easily and hit Honduras around 10am. This is where things got interesting. As soon as we crossed we saw 3 other backpackers who said the buses throughout Honduras we on strike, they had to pay $50 to get to the capital. We didnt like the sound of that idea so we walked to the main road and stuck our hand out. 3 cars later a [View Full Entry]

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so we are here in utilaaa. which is kind of like ko tao, thailand, except minus the beaches everywhere, and obviously replace thai people with honduranians. i arrived after a ridiculously long series of flights from the lowlands- AMS to heathrow, heathrow to miami--where a 5 hour layover proved a great opporunity to call everyone i hadn't spoken with in ages and i discovered an at least 3 star hotel-esque shower in the admirals club lounge (much welcome after already 11 hours of flight time) but finally it was off via business class (free upgrades-i'm not that posh) to san pedro [View Full Entry]

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Our last night on Roatan, we ate fish tacos made of a Wahoo that had been caught on my fishing trip a few days before. I brought the fish, in steaks, to the place where we’d been having the tacos at the whole time we’d been here and asked if they would cook it for us because we had no kitchen. The cook, a woman, took one look in the bag and her eyes bulged. She spoke Spanish and I didn’t understand her. I thought she was saying she could not cook them and was angry that I would ask such [View Full Entry]

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So i got up at 6am and i had the squirts which was a great start, maybe it was the ice in my drinks last night?, or maybe my stomach as issues with central america?..........lol So anyway i headed out of the hostel after taking some imdoium and got a truck to the bus terminal and then i got a chicked bus to Chendega as per the Lonely Planet guide, it took forever and would have stopped for a chicken if chickens could keep money in there beaks...hehe Then at Chendega i got a chicken bus again to the border and [View Full Entry]

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So, here we are in San Pedro Sula in Honduras, a pretty nondescript, ugly, rather violent town in northern honduras. Apart from that it´s really nice. Our last entry was from Antigua where, before our departure we studied more spanish and climbed another volcano. This one had lava that you could fall into. We toasted marshmallows. Well, I say toast, we made marshmallows combust into a ball of flames as soon as they got within 3 feet of the lava. It was quite hot and toasting marshmallows on it isn´t as easy as it sounds. Then it was off to Semuk [View Full Entry]

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Sitting down today, we realised that we hadn’t updated our blog for a long time, and that we have been stamped in and out of six countries since our last update, so apologies in advance if this one is a long one! Our last entry was from Caye Caulker off Belize, just after the hurricane took a diversion away and saved us from having to rearrange our plans. We had a great time relaxing on Caye Caulker, Alex went out snorkelling for the day and was lucky enough that a couple of manatees decided to come and check him out - [View Full Entry]

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Mike and I got in at about 11:30 last night, despite our plane being about 30 min late. Thankfully, someone from the hostel met us at the airpot and gave us a ride here, and even stopped at an ATM on the way. He admitted he was very relieved to see us...he was expecting a gay couple! I had emailed him and he thought I was a guy, and had said I was coming with my boyfriend, lol. But it was a nice place, but the AC didn´t work and neither did the shower heater. It was kind of nice after [View Full Entry]

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This morning we got back to work on the concrete. Today we poured the floor to the same office we poured the ceiling on a couple days ago. It was nice to have a day "off" but it has made it much harder to get back to work today. We finished that in pretty good time (about 2 hours.) After that we began to fill in and level some areas with a supply of fill dirt that was brought to us today. We had a lot of women from the church helping us today. It was neat because earlier in the [View Full Entry]

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