2019: Honduras

Feb 10, 2019.  Hotel Guancascos, Gracias, Honduras ($40).

• Chicken buses all the way, with a very easy no-wait, $3 border crossing.  Hello Honduras!  Looks kinda like El Salvador.  Could it be my imagination, or are the people a little friendlier, the girls a little cuter?  And nice hotel, if a bit expensive, with gardens and all - looking forward to investigating it and the town tomorrow.  Maybe even get my laundry done?

• Read The Woman in the Window - couldn’t stop.  Turned on to it by a New Yorker article about the author.

• Sure wish I didn’t get so many bites from last night - worst yet in quite awhile.  

Emailed Jeremy: please look for a van.

Emailed family: can I overlap with you in condo?

Emailed Nancy: I’m coming back

• Plan: Gracias > Lago de Yojoa (D&D Brewery) > La Ceiba <> Cayis Cochinos <> Rio Cangrejal <> Utila & Roatán > Belize? > Condo (available Mar 10- 16)

• National dish: baleada; Pinchos (Kebabs); Tapado, bando: Garifuna fish soup

Feb 11, 2019.  Hotel Guancascos, Gracias, Honduras

• Spent all day lazing about the room, with a Brief foray to the fort overlooking the town, into town,  some Sarita ice cream, and a very good latte in a raised cafe in the center of the town square.  

• Dinner at the hotel (nothing special, and kind of expensive).  

• Still pissed at the flea (?) bites I got at the Posada Del Reyes in San Ignacio - I should have followed the Moon guide’s warning.