Thursday, July 31, 2008

I shot the sheriff,but Shawny shot the deputy

Over the last two days Ive been pulled over twice and shawny once, the police here in La Ceiba are ridiculous. I bribed one, but the other one I could'nt fight back my pride enough to bribe him. We yelled at eachother in the center of town for a bit until he wrote me a ticket and stole my license. He was on the verge of taking me to jail and I was on the verge of hopping on my bike and splitting for the boarder, but we both calmed down enough to resolve the situation and go in our seperate ways. As you can imagine the cops here are corupt and just want money, so we've set up base at a hostel and are staying put until we get our bikes sold. Were living on rice for now since we dont know how long this process of selling the bikes will take. With Alicia flying out in 5 days, and not having that much luck selling the bikes shawny and I might be here in this dumpy town for awhile. Were in a dock town that ferrys boats out to some of the most beautiful islands in the carabian, but seeing how we have little time and money were stuck in la cieba, until the bikes sell. I figure when and if we sell these ball and chain motos we'll hit up some of these islands and sip pina coladas on the beach, but as for now their mearly an oasis from our crummy out post.
ill add some pictures tommorrow Ill have plenty of time.

Tuesday, July 29, 2008

HONDURAS HERE WE RRRRRRRRR!!!!

Heres the deal were in honduras, we´ve become pirates and our new moto is WWPD( what would a pirate do) we been forced by import laws to become pirates, were selling our bikes and fleeing the country which will be nice cause this place is a little unfriendly. hopefully we´ll be able to take over a boat like real pirates, but we´ll see, Ill keep you informed on that matter. As for getting here it just kept getting worse as we left our lovely home of Xela it took us four days to get to la Cieba Honduras, with boarder problems, bike problems, and endurance problems. All in all the ride was really pretty and nostalgic of the ride down to Guate. im going to miss my bike dearly, it will be like loosing a part of me when its sold. thats all for now.

Saturday, July 26, 2008

ON THE ROAD AGAIN.......OR NOT!!!!

So our first morning back on the bike has been quiet hilarious shawny and i have been trying to get out of xela all morning but we just cant seem to do it. we started off with loosing each othere in the city. After a few hours of trying to find each other shawny wised up and found my phone number and gave me a call letting me know where he was, but as soon as I took off meet up with him my clutch cable broke(for the third time on the trip). Not being able to get back a hold of shawny to let him know that I wasnt on my way I grabed my taxi driver friend who I had been chatting with earlier while trying to find shawny ,and took off to find him. we finally found shawny, bought a new cable, and repaired the bike in the central park of town with a little help from the taxi drivers.(I retract the statement i made in an earlier post about not likeing taxi drivers, they totally redeemed themselves today). By the time we got the bike all fixed up it was noon, so we grabbed some food for lunch and hopped on our bikes. We hadnt gone more then ten feet when shawns clutch handle snapped in half. Nothing really changes on this trip with our bikes, I had forgotten that we would wake most mornings in mexico to some little ridiculous problem with one or all of our bikes. So here we are still in xela and will probably only make it a quarter of the way to the destination for the day, but such is life on our ragtag bikes, and I wouldnt trade it for the world!!!!!!

Friday, July 25, 2008

UP AND RUNNING AGAIN!!!!!!!!!

wow Ive really slacked on blogging over the last couple of weeks, I apologize for that. Today is our last day in xela, the town were we've been studying Spanish for the last 6 weeks. This city has been great to us and I'm quite sad to be leaving, but really excited for whats to come(still in planning but its going to be good stay, tunned.) these last few weeks have been filled with traveling the country of Guatemala which impresses me more and more everyday that were here. this country's great, the people are really great(minus taxi drivers) the foods not that great but we've been able to find some hidden gems. As always we've met some great travelers along the way which always makes for good times and sad goodbyes. I would return to Guatemala, and probably will for some more Spanish tutoring in the future. Ill Hopefully be able to drag some friends along so that they can see what this great country is all about.
heres some highlight from the past couple of weeks in no particular order.

Copan Honduras, Mayan ruins Ill post a few pictures cause really how much can I explain about stones. We also snuck my friends car into Honduras (she just bought it and didn't have the proper paper work yet) and out with no problems, boarder crossing blow my mind you never know whats gonna happen.

Coban Guatemala, floating down a jungle river on inter tubes what more can i say, fantastic. We also got to witness a billion bats leaving a cave. I love that i don't have to watch national geographic any more, we just pick a weekend destination here and experience it our self.(not watching national geographic is like denying God for me, I take it all back)

Montirico Guatemala, Monti... Montirico, those words bring a smile to my face.... I believe the best quote was, "Montirico, the best idea we've ever had" Our salsa and reggae private van, our ridiculous driver Romeo, and a group of 15 idiots on a journey for the greatest two day trip. mission completed and put in the history books of Guatemala forever.(minus the ride home which just would never end).

This is getting a bit long and I'm sure your facebook is calling your name, so we will just have to continue this at a later date but really soon I promise. Oh and more pictures are on there way!!!!!!!!! cheers from Guate