http://www.travelblog.org/Central-America-Caribbean/Honduras/San-Pedro-Sula/ Travel adventures in journals and photos from Central America Caribbean , Honduras , San Pedro Sula en-us Fri, 05 Dec 2008 00:16:51 UTC Fri, 05 Dec 2008 00:16:51 UTC Stay here how long http://www.travelblog.org//Central-America-Caribbean/Honduras/San-Pedro-Sula/blog-332686.html San Petro Sula 25 marzo 1990.I watch this arid centralamerican world go by from the closed environment of an old and crappy honduran bus on the way to San Petro Sula. I039m the only gringo aboard and I039m 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 ro http://www.travelblog.org//Central-America-Caribbean/Honduras/San-Pedro-Sula/blog-314363.html Only have 2 whole days left here in Honduras. I am anxiously counting down the days until I get on that airplane headed back to the states. Don't get me wrong I wouldn't take this experience back for anything but I don't think I would do it again either. I think Honduras is the type of place one either settles right into those who could live on a deserted island or survive in the Amazon are pro http://www.travelblog.org//Central-America-Caribbean/Honduras/San-Pedro-Sula/blog-306139.html So Cory left this morning. Teared up a little when the driver came to pick her up. Not a fan of goodbyes. I think I was also a little emotional because I wish I were leaving too. I know I only have less than a week left but I'm ready to get back to my old life. Don't get me wrong I will miss Nelly and Belkis and Honduras. And learning Spanish. I'm still trying to figure out how I am going to c http://www.travelblog.org//Central-America-Caribbean/Honduras/San-Pedro-Sula/blog-304927.html This is my new airport question the single question you get asked most often. In one form or another every single person I have met has asked me this. First with a 17yo girl at the home when she asks me So you have a boyfriend Me No Her No But you're pretty Me Pretty doesn't get you a relationship Her How come you don't have one then Me I don't need one at the moment Her http://www.travelblog.org//Central-America-Caribbean/Honduras/San-Pedro-Sula/blog-304621.html Bridget Jones Moment I have gained a solid 5 pounds here in Honduras. What ever happened to me getting violently ill and losing 5 pounds then being so traumatized from the experience that I wind up not eating most food and as a result I lose another 5 pounds I come back 10 pounds lighter with a super tan because the sun in Honduras is far more powerful than the sun in Alabama. It was all a fan http://www.travelblog.org//Central-America-Caribbean/Honduras/San-Pedro-Sula/blog-303836.html 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 didn http://www.travelblog.org//Central-America-Caribbean/Honduras/San-Pedro-Sula/blog-303735.html So a new couple moved in to the house. I was in bed all day Monday with a lovely head cold. So I met them Monday night at dinner. And OH MY GOD are they boring. They are from Colorado. They have the whole Midwestern accent and wholesomeness down to a tee. Late 50's. The husband is an Episcopal reverend and the wife is.. well what do you think Yep A wife you win I really think people with bori http://www.travelblog.org//Central-America-Caribbean/Honduras/San-Pedro-Sula/blog-300756.html Did that title confuse you Because its not an actually sentence That's because its not. But ohhh it makes sense to Sherri my Spanish instructor. She sucks. I basically asked Belkis if she could do something about the way Sherri is teaching me because I'm just not getting it and I know its not because I'm a 'tard. Belkis' solution is to just teach me instead. Oh don't worry poor Sherri's feeli http://www.travelblog.org//Central-America-Caribbean/Honduras/San-Pedro-Sula/blog-297667.html So I took a nap right after the first blog entry. When I woke up and went to leave my room Milly sp the adorable housekeeper greeted me. I think she had been waiting for me to wake up. She immediately asked me if I was hungry and wanted some dinner. I think I was like Sheah I want some dinner. No I was like Si I followed her to the kitchen where she put together a handmade tortilla http://www.travelblog.org//Central-America-Caribbean/Honduras/San-Pedro-Sula/blog-296804.html Ok so the first thought when boarding the airplane that would take me to Honduras was Turn around and run. I told myself it was just fear of the unknown and got on the plane anyway. Now I'm actually in Honduras and I don't really know what I'm doing here. Let me go back to when I arrived at the airport. It took forever to get through customs. No big deal. Then as I was grabbing my bags a nice http://www.travelblog.org//Central-America-Caribbean/Honduras/San-Pedro-Sula/blog-296194.html 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 miamiwhere 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 h http://www.travelblog.org//Central-America-Caribbean/Honduras/San-Pedro-Sula/blog-281192.html 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 wersquod been having the tacos at the whole time wersquod 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 http://www.travelblog.org//Central-America-Caribbean/Honduras/San-Pedro-Sula/blog-261477.html 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..........lolSo 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 chicke http://www.travelblog.org//Central-America-Caribbean/Honduras/San-Pedro-Sula/blog-244356.html So here we are in San Pedro Sula in Honduras a pretty nondescript ugly rather violent town in northern honduras. Apart from that its 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 flame http://www.travelblog.org//Central-America-Caribbean/Honduras/San-Pedro-Sula/blog-238559.html Sitting down today we realised that we hadnrsquot 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 oneOur 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 C http://www.travelblog.org//Central-America-Caribbean/Honduras/San-Pedro-Sula/blog-207406.html Mike and I got in at about 1130 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 ni http://www.travelblog.org//Central-America-Caribbean/Honduras/San-Pedro-Sula/blog-197993.html 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 http://www.travelblog.org//Central-America-Caribbean/Honduras/San-Pedro-Sula/blog-190174.html Today we attended worship with the brethren in Puerto Cortez. At the end of services Javier asked them to sing We love you with the love of the Lord to us in spanish. Then we sang it to them in English. After worship we changed clothes and packed our bags. We ate strips of beef with avocado salad on tortillas. It was good. Then we went back to the apartment and played farkle a dice game http://www.travelblog.org//Central-America-Caribbean/Honduras/San-Pedro-Sula/blog-186991.html Today we woke up at 7 am and the guys were all gone working. We quickly got up and went to work too. Our job today was to put a concrete roof on the office of the church building. At first we had to mix the concrete by hand. At 10 or 1030 we got a mixer. Then things moved a lot faster. We worked through the hottest part of the day. We all got burned and very tired. This morning we got to drive a http://www.travelblog.org//Central-America-Caribbean/Honduras/San-Pedro-Sula/blog-186987.html We began the day today with song and prayer and scripture. Today the work began. We started to level out the floors of the church building. It was hard backbreaking work. I tried fried plantains for breakfast they were surprisingly delicious. In the afternoon we went for a ldquoquickrdquo ride with Javier. 4 hours later and 5 or 6 ldquoone more stopsrdquo unexpected we returned home http://www.travelblog.org//Central-America-Caribbean/Honduras/San-Pedro-Sula/blog-186985.html Today we flew 4 hours to Miami and then had a 3 hour layover in the Miami airport. During that time we enjoyed 8 pizzas that tasted like sand. We then flew another hour and a half to San Pedro Sula. One thing to say about thatHOT The humidity is out of control. Our apartment is veryhelliprustic. There was one light to start with and it is hot. The toilet has no seat but it does flush. http://www.travelblog.org//Central-America-Caribbean/Honduras/San-Pedro-Sula/blog-186982.html Yesterday all three of us who had not yet received our passports went and got them. It was a relief to say the least. I felt like it was God's final affirmation of the fact that He has called me out into His work. I can hardly wait to leave. Today I will spend the day quietly with my kids and Greg. It will be very hard to be away from them for so long. I know that what I am doing has kingdom http://www.travelblog.org//Central-America-Caribbean/Honduras/San-Pedro-Sula/blog-185371.html Untitled Today I finished most of the packing that I need to do with the exception of last minute things. It's a relief to have that completed. I am still missing one important item however my passport. I have an appointment on Tuesday to get one made if it doesn't arrive before then. When I sent my application months ago I never thought I might still be waiting this long for it to get here. http://www.travelblog.org//Central-America-Caribbean/Honduras/San-Pedro-Sula/blog-183603.html I will try to update as often as possible so that none of you worry that I've been dropped at the side of the road with nothing but a machete to defend myself... lol. I am currently at an internet cafe in San Pedro Honduras. Turns out the nice bus I want to take to Copan doesn't leave for a couple hours yet. I thought I would kill some time so asked for directions to an internet cafe. There was http://www.travelblog.org//Central-America-Caribbean/Honduras/San-Pedro-Sula/blog-173981.html Here at lastRobertsonOk so Im going to try this again. I blogged yesterday this is the 9th but the internet crashed right when I was publishing my blog. We are now in San Pedro Sula. We are staying in a hostal called E y N. My mom was upset when she heard it was a hostal but I assured her it wasnt a normal one. its hard to hit the apostrophe. We got there after a very nice and what http://www.travelblog.org//Central-America-Caribbean/Honduras/San-Pedro-Sula/blog-167489.html Despite what you may have heard from whatever source I am hot and happyIt has been a huge culture shock for me over the past mm..almost 3 weeks here in Honduras but it has been amazing. During the weekdays I have been spending time working with a sort of kindergarden class in the morning...and then babies in the afternoon...they are so many beautiful children Like my mom and everyone else said http://www.travelblog.org//Central-America-Caribbean/Honduras/San-Pedro-Sula/blog-141991.html HolaArriving safely in Honduras after 24 hours of flying with no bags it was a relief to meet my country coordinator and host mother at the airport. I was brought to their cute quaint home and introduced to Zoilas children Nara 19 and Dennis 6. I was also introduced to 4 American girls just ending a trip through the same program this week. Got to know them all quite a bit and then finally g http://www.travelblog.org//Central-America-Caribbean/Honduras/San-Pedro-Sula/blog-136598.html wow two blogs in one week What is going on Though you may not even be aware of this because I am worried this site is still not sending out updates so if you are reading this tell a friend please. More to comeMy Uncle David and Pam came to visit at the end of January. I took a Friday and Monday off from work and went and met them in San Pedro Sula. It was great to see them and also a welco http://www.travelblog.org//Central-America-Caribbean/Honduras/San-Pedro-Sula/blog-131541.html Well I am actually here on the northern carribean coast of Honduras in a small beach village called Omoa which has a population of about 2000. I have been here since arriving at the port city of Puerto Cortes in Northern Honuduras even though the entry states that I am in San Pedro Sula. I went to do some exploring of the local area and decided the easiest way to do this was to hire a local bike w http://www.travelblog.org//Central-America-Caribbean/Honduras/San-Pedro-Sula/blog-111626.html