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Well, today I decided to take the secret, back way into Honduras from El Salvador...thats nice dear....<br />What an epic!...got out of San Miguel, yes, one of many San Miguels, there like the Smith name is to telephone books, San Miguels are to maps of central and south america....found the supposed border town just at the end of the road where they said it would be...but where's the road out?..some sort of mystery...the ongoing aversion to signage!...evryone pointing in different directions but the most credible says ´turn off at the casa de mouse´..so we go to a corner, no casa de mouse, and only a dirt track heading off into the sticks!...ask a few more punters, same story, so its off into the wild dirt track yonder...unbelievably bad road, washouts, rocks, everything a good dirt biker loves...

Hi Honey, I'm home....and how was your day?

Bill Shum
2006-03-24 22:10:00

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Well, today I decided to take the secret, back way into Honduras from El Salvador...thats nice dear....
What an epic!...got out of San Miguel, yes, one of many San Miguels, there like the Smith name is to telephone books, San Miguels are to maps of central and south america....found the supposed border town just at the end of the road where they said it would be...but where's the road out?..some sort of mystery...the ongoing aversion to signage!...evryone pointing in different directions but the most credible says ´turn off at the casa de mouse´..so we go to a corner, no casa de mouse, and only a dirt track heading off into the sticks!...ask a few more punters, same story, so its off into the wild dirt track yonder...unbelievably bad road, washouts, rocks, everything a good dirt biker loves...eventually come round the corner, high in the mountains, like after 30 kms or so, theres a little woodsman's hut, three old witches hats across the track and 2 cops/militia whatever. We park off to the side, stroll over with the passaportes, dodgey bike papers, smiles all round, couple of notes in the book and its farewell El Salvador..too easy...another km down the track an impressive concrete driveway into the Honduran border buildings...hopefully this is the start of what appears on the map, as a major highway!...cruise thru the formalities, this is the easiest border ever, but then realise its at a price, like another long stretch of the roughest excuse for a road you could imagine...and there are some cars and busses also going thru but it must take them hours and hours as its soo fcuking rough.
So we get to the next town and head out, at last, on this fabulous smooth, new, thick, wide, bitumen freeway...blissed out I'm just fanging it over a crest and just pull up in time to avoid the crossed planks and signs...roado closedo...and the detour off onto an upmarket fire track...is this a bandito ruse I wonder, I've heard all the horror ...