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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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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'...
And theres almost always someone who speaks a bit of english who helps us out if we're really stuck, some give us phone details etc in case we ever need some help, v generous and kind...but also a lot of really dimwits, don't mean to be harsh but these aren't the sharpest tools in the shed, in fact many are definitely a few palm fronds short of a palapa..even in their own offices they don't seem to have any idea what goes on next door!...still and all.....
All tomatoes lead to Roma...back to the last beginning...had some nice saladas in Copan, getting a bit Antigua-like but finally good coffee, with a touch of cardomom, another local product, sitting in the upstairs room of a tres cute cafe, looking out over the rooftops, watching a guy on the top floor of a building nearby, trying to carry a sheet of corrugated iron, wind picking up, this guy's about to introduce hang gliding to Honduras....
Did I tell you why the roads are so good?..and why they survive the fantastically ...