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What an amazing thing time is! ..its my birthday where a lot of you are and its not til tomorrow for me here...so thank you for the wishes....time warping from the ruinas back to the 21st century altho' the border x-ing into Nicaragua was not user friendly...I mean how hard would it be just to put up a couple of signs? like passports here and vehicle stuff here...felt like whipping out the felt nib and just writing on the wall...and no-one, even the people who work there, have much idea...a Panamanian english speaking guy asked several of the officials for directions for us...and they turned out to be wrong!!...anyway, we ultimately worked it out...passports were easy, and the bike stuff a black comedy of errors culminating in a waiting game with the last Honduran official who was insisting on getting the non-existant bit of paper that we should have got on the way in...we outlasted him and in the end he just waved us thru'...or waived us thru'...

Hasta la Tardis

Bill Shum
2006-03-24 22:07:24

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overloaded trucks...its the thickness of the bitumen...and its cheap coz most of these places have it growing in the ground...and then they lay it on like my hyperbole...thick like butter on sunday morning toast..must be a foot deep...the downside is that theres a great drop-off from the road surface to the shoulder...
Catch bits of music in cafes and bars, big nostalgia trip like music always does...hearing faves from 70s thru..
Copan is like an ants nest with busy, bustling 3 wheel bemos buzzing up and down the cobblestones, and you can fit 3 of us into 1 altho I was tempted to leave the helmet and armour on...scary stuff..
Got out of Copan and the ruinas...did a loop of the country, almost made it to the Carib but hit the industrial 'burbs of whateverville and headed down the guts to el capital...finally a great road!..Honduras has 2 types of road...freeway and fire trail...back into mountain country and hit a huge storm so we holed up in a place until the worst was over...and got down as far as somewhere near the border..ah another San Miguel...and next day to the frontera...and I've said enough about that..
Out on the road and Nicaragua looks a lot poorer, and it is...even the cattle looked thinner, crops meagerer, dogs mangier, bummer....
All over these countries there are guys with ice cream boxes on a sort of bicycle rig...must be military strength ice coz they seem to go around all day and everywhere....even right out in the middle of nowhere I see this Eskimo (thats the brand!) guy by the side of the road, about 30 kms from any town, a million degrees hot, and theres a cowboy, on his horse, reaching down to get his neapolitan cone!!....couldn't believe it!!
Lots of people waiting by the roadside for a bus or theres a system whereby cars or vans or utes stop and negotiate with them for a lift, dunno how it works exactly..
Another little kid thunders along by the roadside on his pony, no ...