Friday, December 14, 2007

Were in Honduras now !

welllll.. how time flys when your having fun . We headed down the hwy towards La Frontere border crossing with Guatemala. nice ride most of the way , lots of Jungle . Hit this small town , not much their, no gas, no banks. Found out that this was only a crossing for foot passengers and we could not clear our bikes out of Mexico , big problem in a way , as we had too give a security deposit to the customs when we entered Mexico and now we had to prove that the bikes were leaving Mexico, or face getting our deposit for fitted . We decided to take the chance and cross here othewise we would have to ride about another 400km to a decent border x ing . The border is a large river between the 2 countries. Only ferries are small ponga type boats , very narrow and long . Well after negotiating a price and finding an ok place to load we lifted them onto the boats . 1 boat per bike , i was a little tense , if it went over in this river , the trip would end quickly. We made it to the other side in about 10 minutes first up river then down then back up again , it was a great adventure and we were now in Guatemala! The roads changed and the towns were much poorer. Pigs and dogs everywhere... we were riding quite fast and i noticed a building off to the side ... immigration..we stopped and got our passports checked
and said he could not do the bikes here and we would have to go back to mexico ... duh well after some sweet talk and a chat with the police he said to go without it. yahoo ... we rode for another couple hrs when it started to and get darkand then pour rain ,so we stopped at a little resturante to dry off and eat and they also had a room for us so we put in for the night , another interesting day...
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