Monday, June 30, 2008

Nica/Honduras/El Salvador

Greetings all

Wow, so much has happened in this last short while since entering Nicaragua – we met Stacy and Mike at the second “end of the road” destinations since starting the expedition and we were so amazed and impressed by this out of the way remote resort with the most pristine and beautiful beaches and one of Central America’s largest estuaries that is about 10 “Elsie” miles down the beach – check it out at www.redwoodbeachresort.com

Anyone wanting to adventure to such a remote but truly beautiful and comfortable resort and be treated to Stacy and Mike’s spontaneous hospitality, should make the effort to go, just don’t expect to leave in any hurry as time means nothing there.

We worked on them setting up a few tents up there that will be rather unique if they decide to proceed.

This destination is truly also a fisherman’s paradise for those who care to get on the ocean and catch those underwater critters.

After bidding our farewell’s we headed to Honduras where the border crossing was a total nightmare with bribes up the Wahoo.

After just a short distance in Honduras, we were constantly harassed by the cops and fined for the most incredulous things that I started to get a real uneasy feeling in Honduras and by the next morning, I was not at ease and was not able to reach any of our clients that we were to meet in the north of the country that we decided to trust my instincts and get out of the country.

So early the next day we boogied across the border into El Salvador and I was real happy about our decision to do so.

El Salvador has welcomed us and we are happy to be here, so much so that Elsie got her first wash today and is looking better that the two of us for now…..

We are unable to upload images, so they will have to wait for another day - so sorry as they are cool pics.

We expect to be entering Guatemala by the weekend and then onto Belize.

Life is beautiful and then you can marry it and all is good.

Paul and Angelika

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Paul,

Unfortunately you haven't seen any type of bribes until you get into Mexico. If you think Honduras is bad... good luck. It starts to get bad around the border of Guatemala and Mexico and is non stop bribes after that... Keep plenty of 1's and 5's for "las aguas" (bribes)and stick to the toll roads!!! Also, the border is a nightmare... don't get scammed by all the "agencies" that seem like customs agents.