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Soewhere deep in north Honduras....one minute in Guate ..next in Honduras..and you´ll have to excuse the typing cos this is one sicko keyboard..u can see already that the space bar don´t always work..<br />
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Bill Shum2006-03-24 22:11:04
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beside it, every window and panel busted, a pole shaped indent from the front bumper back to the windscreen...the new pole is up and this probably happened a year or so ago, but its a salutory warning for all who pass by! and its left there for that very purpose.
Lots of yellow school busses, just like the US school busses, hang on, they even have the US school names on them, and districts..someone has a good little business with used school busses going here!
All along the way, wall to wall corn and sugar, and all along the way kids and adults suddenly appear, just pop up onto the road from out of the crops, no sign of any houses or anything...so one has to be careful as they can bounce out at any time.
Someties I make direct eye contact with people, in the towns or out in the sticks, I wonder just what they are thinking, in some of the way outback places we must look like freaking robocops or men from Mars, with the Lex Luther Downer, transvestight black mesh, redtrimmed armour, massive machines with lights blazing, looking definitely BAD from boots to helmets....and some little farm kid, all he knows is tortillas and corn and cows, what does he make of it all?....
All of this is extremely rich and fertile land...you could grow anything here, and they probably do!...but I don´t think the profits get spreadaround very far. Theres the odd BIG sugar refinery and the remnants of little ones off to the side of the road, some cute old beehive shaped brick kilns, now neglected and getting grown over....along with other recent ruinas, sheds with old pipes and chimneys hanging off, rusted walls and roofs caving in...
Get to the El Salvador border, vehicle part out of Guate is easy, visa into El Sal slow and sweaty.. cos its about 40 degrees and 110% humidity, talk to a few friendly truckies waiting also...then thru to the ElSal vehicle part, aarrgghh, anyway, too many days ago... I´ve lost the fine edge of edgy, losing
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