Not an overly exciting blog today sorry guys. It involves a bus, a wait at a bus station, another bus, then a ferry and another bus. Massive travel day however after 12 hours we have arrived at Roatan Island in the Carribean Sea. The day started with us catching the 7am 'chicken bus' from Copan. A chicken bus is the name given to the old American school buses that for some reason have been acquired by the Central American countries for use as public buses. We had pre-ordered breakfast so were glad when our egg and bacon rolls were handed out. Unfortunately, we had also ordered strawberry smoothies however as the guy was handing them out, 3 of them somehow tipped over and spilt everywhere all over the floor. Even worse was that because I was ... read more

We were up relatively early this morning for our big travel day out of Guatemala and into Honduras. We were told by our tour guide, Jacob that the coffee shop up the road does good breakfasts. What we didn't factor in was the fact that all our tour group were, of course, going to go to the same place for breaky too. So when we arrived there wasn't actually much food left and because there was only one girl behind the counter serving everyone, she was a little run off her feet! We finally got a couple of lattes and some banana bread to go and rushed back to our waiting minibus. Rach really liked her coffee and said it was one of the best ones she's ever had! We bumped along the cobble stone streets ... read more

We had to get up really early this morning...like in the 4's to catch the 5.04am train to Newark Airport. We said our goodbyes to Susan who dropped us off at the train station, what an absolute trooper after driving us around the East Coast of the states all week! We made it through the longest security process in history at Newark Airport including having one of those crazy xrays where you have to stand like a teepee. After a quick bite for breakfast (including a sampler at Aunty Anne's pretzels...Rach couldn't buy a full one because she ate too much breaky and wasn't hungry!!) we hopped on our United Airlines flight down to Guatemala City. The flight went pretty quickly and 5 hours later we landed. We had a pretty good run through the airport ... read more

We had to get up early this morning as we were driving the Washington DC. We left about 7.30am and headed south-west, me in the front seat with directions playing navigator, Rach in the back nice and comfortable with an assortment of bedding for the long road trip. We hit morning peak hour traffic around Philidelphia and crawled through the outskirts of the city. Rach and Susan were amusing themselves creating business venture ideas for daily commuters, including a mobile gymnasium in the back of a semi, and making up ways to ensure the kids wouldn't hurt themselves while the truck was in motion. We had a lot of time to kill on the long journey and Susan filled us in on some American history. It was quite interesting to learn about the civil war between ... read more

We had an amazing sleep last night after recently not actually having the luxury of sleeping in beds! We didnt have orders to be up early this morning so slept till about 8.30, got up, changed and spewed all contents of our packs all over the room and gathered up a mountain of washing to be done. We wandered into the kitchen, got taught how to make coffee with their coffee maker and then got made pancakes with candy and bananas! Very spoilt! We then got in the car and headed to the train station to go to New York for the day! It was freeeezing! We looked at the weather forecast and it said it was currently 1deg and getting to 5!!So cold! So we were completely rugged up as if in Scotland still with ... read more