Well, today has been good, though I won´t be leaving Copan Ruinas quite as soon as I had hoped. For some mysterious reason, NONE of the buses that leave Copan at 6:00 am are running tomorrow morning. So I´ll have to wait until noon to leave, and won´t arrive in Antigua until 6:00 pm (if everything goes smoothly). All I can do is cross my fingers and enjoy the ride. The only way I can cross the border earlier is by doing it alone on local buses rather than with a tour company. By myself I would be, well, alone, it would definitely take longer, and would probably cost the same; so there´s really no point.
I´m now bored out of my mind, it´s been pouring rain for a couple of hours (I wish I could deliver some of it to Utila), the television stations available here suck, and I have no idea what I´m going to do until noon tomorrow. I like journeys--I don´t mind being on a bus for six hours or more--but I don´t like to sit around waiting with nothing to do. Alas, I guess I´ll live.
While watching extremely boring television, I´m pretty sure I watched national news on every station that broadcasts it. Naturally, they all told me just about the same thing. One thing I learned just before giving up on the TV was that there will be a ¨March for Peace and Democracy¨ here in Copan Ruinas on Saturday morning. This is the same as all the other demonstrations that have been happening across the country. So, I´m quite happy that I should be crossing the border before I get stuck behind any more demonstrations while trying to travel.
Nothing else to report from here, for obvious reasons. I saw a small chicken flee the streets from the rain earlier. It ran into a clothing store for cover. I wonder how long it was allowed to stay in there for...?
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nice chicken story there :P
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