Blogs from Copán Ruinas, Western, Honduras, Central America Caribbean - page 22

For the past couple weeks I´ve helped a different missionary couple in the area with a food distribution project for the Chorti Villages in the Copan area. For various reasons each year the Chorti people (indigineous descendants) don´t have enough corn and bean harvest to last 12 months, usually going without much food for 2 months. It´s expected though and usually not anything major. This year, however, has been especially drastic though and numerous families have absolutely NO FOOD in their homes. So, Billy and Mary Collins, missionaries from Arkansa to the Chorti people in Copan, were granted funds from a state side church to do a 6 week food distribution to get the Chorti through until their next harvest. I was recruited to help register the represtentatives from the families, asking how many are in ... read more

hey all byron gave me control of the keyboard today, it was hard but he let go. today we woke up late, late after a much needed sleep. after 24 hours with none. anyway we ate, had wonderful honduran coffee and went walking to the ruins. the walk was about a mile, on an old stone pathway, covered by trees and green everywhere. I would visit copan just for the lush plant life, beautiful. we got to the ruins and byron was free, one of the advantages to traveling around central america and being from central america. i paid happily, how much have they paid to the us, lots im sure. anyway the ruins were bigger then i thought, after seeing tikal i thought there would be nothing to compare, im happy to say i was ... read more

Not bad for a first day. Actually, the good fortune began before we even got to Guate. Marla and got our seats upgrated to first class. Flight was bumpy as hell though. We got to Guate at about 5am but the rental car place did not open till 6, so we had to sit around and wait for an hour. We finally got our car and the adventure began. Those of you who have travelled anywhere with me know that i have the worst sense of direction in the entire world. I get turned around in my own neighborhood! The trick was getting out of the city, from there it was to be smooth sailing. It took us about 2 hours to actually find the internatial road to Honduras. It happened to us twice today that ... read more

This morning we went to the Mayan ruins of Copan. It was neat. It made me sad to see all of the Idols and the false god worship that had shaped this society. I guess society is similar even today, but our idols look different. After we finished our tour we went for lunch in town (yeah we finally got to pick our own meals. Most of us picked hamburgers or something else American!) Then we spent a little time shopping and began the journey back to San Pedro. There we got the opportunity to look at the land for Louisa. It was less desirable to us that we had hoped. The land is very steep and hard to get to even in a truck. Louisa is going blind, so this may not be the best ... read more

In January I wouldn´t have imagined going in the Copàn River...just didn´t seem like the healthiest thing in the world to do. But on a HOT Honduran afternoon anything related to water sounds good! We were up-stream from the green water coming in from town (I didn´t even need to ask what that was), and we were down-stream from the cow crossing... but I haven´t grown a third arm or eye or anything like that, so I deam the rivers SAFE! The current was pretty strong, so we made our way to a deeper part and let the current carry us down. Fun and thrilling (but I´m easily entertained!). On this first trip I wore my swimsuit, but I´ve found that most people either bath with all their clothes on or naked (though that´s mostly the ... read more