ChrisJenTravel.com – Honeymoon Trek

I’ve heard Honduras has some amazing areas – the ruins at Copan, mountainous small villages, and of course, the Bay Islands which are world renowned for diving and fishing. However, we crossed the country on the Western edge which basically consists of a border crossing, followed by 70 uneventful miles on the Pan-American, then another border crossing. But in the interest of making this side of their country memorable, or maybe just to punish those quickly skirting through the country, Honduras makes their border crossings as miserable as humanly possible. Stories of waiting 5 to 6 hours for paperwork processing are common, as are the tales of being scammed.

We knew we were close to the border when a pack of young men came rushing up to the car, then sprinted down the street alongside. Each one was competing for our attention in the hopes that we would pick them to help process our border paperwork for a tip. We had given a nice guy $5 to help with the confusion at the El Salvadorean crossing and concluded it was well worth it, so we thought nothing of doing the same for Honduras, which is notorious for having more paperwork. We picked the one who spoke the best English and, with him standing on our bumper hanging on, we proceeded on, ready to do battle. [read on]

Well, a few of you are wondering where we (or at least our entries) disappeared to. We were going along strong through El Salvador, updating at least once a week, then somehow we picked up a bug in our computer which sllloooooooowwwwwed everything down and made it impossible to get on the web. We eventually got over this and decided to just go to the internet cafes and type our entries all at once. However, then we found out that the site that hosts our page, Bootsnall, was the victim of some hacking and more than a month’s worth of entries were lost.
After this we decided to just have a vacation for the last month of the Central America leg of the trip and update everyone in person or at a later date. So, here we are, back in Florida, getting ready to set off on the next leg – California, Hawaii, Southeast Asia, Australia, New Zealand on 11/28. We’ve managed to see most of our friends and family while we’ve been back and we sure miss home, but I can tell you we’re nowhere near ready to go back to work yet! I’ll try to update the end of the Central America leg as best as I can remember. It was amazing in all, so it shouldn’t be too hard.