Journey Back Home
This blog started with the adventures of three former Peace Corps Volunteers and their Toyota Landcruiser, La Puta Madre, as they travel the Pan-American highway through the countries of Central America on their journey home to the United States. Unfotunately two of the original three have sold out to the man and are slowly turning into suits. Now, it chronicles the travels of the last of the original three. This would be Colin (the funny one)
Thursday, September 20, 2007
Thursday, September 13, 2007
Tuesday, September 11, 2007
Monday, September 10, 2007
Sunday, September 09, 2007
Saturday, September 08, 2007
Friday, September 07, 2007
Guanaja the Norh Coast and the first few days in La Esperanza
So while all the locals were scrambling to get off the island my brother Pete and I were trying to get on it. Of course the hurricane ended up hitting the far east coast of Honduras and falling apart but no one was in too much of a rush to get back to their homes. As a result it was a lot quieter that usual, we stayed on the north side of Guanaja and pretty much had the beach to ourselves. Good snorkeling and watrfalls to visit, it was a nice couple of days. The last day we spent on the much smaller but much more populated island because we were running out of money and there was no way to replenish our funds without waiting in a 4 hour line at the bank, and then only maybe. The small island called "Banaca"by locals is pretty cool, no cars or motorcycles and it was all connected by haphazard planned concrete walks, many of which were suspended over the water. I had fallen hit my leg on a rock and gashed it pretty good, it got infected so I went to a doctor who wrote me a subscription which I got filled at a local pharmacy. I don't know who was at fault the doctor or the phamacist but I ended up rubbing pink eye medicine on my leg for three days. I couldn't figire out why it wasn't helping. We're in La Esperanza now and I have seen another doctor who filled me in on the mishap, she performed a little minor surgery, scraping out the infection in my leg while I watched. She had numbed me down first so it was weird to see her sticking a rasor balde in my leg and to not feel a thing. So the legs on the mend, unfortunately we're both fighting back colds at the moment which has made the first few days pretty uneventful. Hopefully they'll be behind us by Monday, the community I'm here helping is expecting to see us.
Thursday, September 06, 2007
Wednesday, September 05, 2007
Tuesday, September 04, 2007
The slow boat from Tampa to Honduras
The slow boat from Tampa to Honduras
Originally uploaded by Road Trip
Monday, September 03, 2007
Tampa to Roatan
So a few days on a cargo boat and no worse for wear. the first few days were nice and calm a lot of reading and staring out at the water, I got to see tons of flying fish and a pod of dolphins, they heard the boat, swam over and were playing in the wake off the bow. Supposedly a pilot whale was seen too but not with these eyes. The last 24 hours or so was pretty nuts the weather got bad right before I went to sleep. The boat was being tossed around so much that any actual sleep turned out to be impossible, it was more like laying there with your eyes closed for 8 hours. Waves would lift the boat so high and then drop it so fast that you felt like you were in free fall. The sound of things rumbling around underneath the cabin together with the knowledge that Hurricane Felix wasn't all that far away made me question our safety a bit, which made that 8 hours with my eyes closed feel a bit longer. But I got off the boat yesterday in Roatan and met up with my brother. I ended up spending some time in Tampa wating for the boat to leave which turned what was supposed to be an intersting way to travel while saving some cash into a more expensive trip but I look at it like I was paying for the experience. So I gotta say that overall it was worthit