Travel E-mails
An archive of e-mails from my Centeral/South America trip.5/10/2006
Hot Diggidy-Dawg! Another steak on the babie hun, we gots comp'ny! YEE-HA!!
Well y'all are mighty welcome to another grand'ol e-mail from your favorite 'bandito' Zacharias. Now y'all listen close ya hear, cause if ya don't, I'll cut your ears off and feed them to savage dogs in the desert! YEE-HA!
sorry about that, just had to get it out.
So, what's up with me you ask? where am I? where have I been? am I still alive (duh)?
One at a time! PLEASE! I can only get so much out at once!
has he lost his mind? has he? HA! you be the judge!
Damn you for judging me!!!
so, back to the e-mail.
I am writing this from Copan Ruinas -- which is just outside of the Ruins of Copan conveinantly.. about a kilometer from a major archelogical site (mayans) which I go to see tomorrow... then off to Lake Atitlan again.
Damn have I covered a lot of distance... from San Jose I went to Grenada, Nicaragua (again) and chilled out with some cool americans... a 60 year old german who didn't speak a word of english tried to hook me up with another german girl moving in the same direction, and I drank a LOT of that good'ol Flor de Cana -- best rum I've found yet, and cheap!!!
So... after a couple nights in Grenada, I headed to Managua (Nica's Capital) and then off to Tegucigalpa (Honduras Capital). I stayed a couple nights at the 'Tobacco Road Inn' because the owner was a cool-nut case and I had a big bottle of mmm-good 10 year old Glenmorangie single malt and some cheap cheap cheap cigars from Nica (roughly 7 cents a piece... and pretty nice for the price, crudely hand rolled though), and the owner and I drank scotch and brandy a lot. I also ran into a cute German girl who I had met in Panama City and in Bocas del Toro before going to Peru.
From there it was off to Tela, a nice little beach town on the carribean side of Honduras, where I chilled out, stayed in a REALLY cheap hotel (it was like $1.50 per night) and spent some good beach time, eating fresh coconuts on the beach after knocking them down with a stick... mmmm coconut.
From Tela it was to Utila -- a Bay Island, famous for Diving. I was delayed by a slow bus and a taxi driver who took a detour to drop someone else off and had to JUMP onto the ferrie to get to the island, with my backpack on... fun times... didn't end up paying though (ha! try to leave without me!). On Utila I got PADI open water certified -- and did a total of 6 dives seeing all sorts of crazy tropical fishes and corals and things of the likes... AND... I saw the famous WHALE SHARK!!!!! Why is it called that? because it's the biggest shark there is!!! we saw two of them... had to find them, boat up to them, jump in with snorkels, and see them as they swam away... I even grabbed onto one's fin and rode it for awhile!!! Freakin AWSOME!!!
so, after that I came here, Copan.... just got in.
Unfortunatley I have little time to finish this e-mail (I almost wrote fishnish)... so it is being cut short.
Well. I am headed to Panajachel next, and Semana Santa is up and coming, 20th to the 27th, which should be an interesting festival.... we'll see what adventures it brings!
Whalesharks!!!!
Zac
sorry about that, just had to get it out.
So, what's up with me you ask? where am I? where have I been? am I still alive (duh)?
One at a time! PLEASE! I can only get so much out at once!
has he lost his mind? has he? HA! you be the judge!
Damn you for judging me!!!
so, back to the e-mail.
I am writing this from Copan Ruinas -- which is just outside of the Ruins of Copan conveinantly.. about a kilometer from a major archelogical site (mayans) which I go to see tomorrow... then off to Lake Atitlan again.
Damn have I covered a lot of distance... from San Jose I went to Grenada, Nicaragua (again) and chilled out with some cool americans... a 60 year old german who didn't speak a word of english tried to hook me up with another german girl moving in the same direction, and I drank a LOT of that good'ol Flor de Cana -- best rum I've found yet, and cheap!!!
So... after a couple nights in Grenada, I headed to Managua (Nica's Capital) and then off to Tegucigalpa (Honduras Capital). I stayed a couple nights at the 'Tobacco Road Inn' because the owner was a cool-nut case and I had a big bottle of mmm-good 10 year old Glenmorangie single malt and some cheap cheap cheap cigars from Nica (roughly 7 cents a piece... and pretty nice for the price, crudely hand rolled though), and the owner and I drank scotch and brandy a lot. I also ran into a cute German girl who I had met in Panama City and in Bocas del Toro before going to Peru.
From there it was off to Tela, a nice little beach town on the carribean side of Honduras, where I chilled out, stayed in a REALLY cheap hotel (it was like $1.50 per night) and spent some good beach time, eating fresh coconuts on the beach after knocking them down with a stick... mmmm coconut.
From Tela it was to Utila -- a Bay Island, famous for Diving. I was delayed by a slow bus and a taxi driver who took a detour to drop someone else off and had to JUMP onto the ferrie to get to the island, with my backpack on... fun times... didn't end up paying though (ha! try to leave without me!). On Utila I got PADI open water certified -- and did a total of 6 dives seeing all sorts of crazy tropical fishes and corals and things of the likes... AND... I saw the famous WHALE SHARK!!!!! Why is it called that? because it's the biggest shark there is!!! we saw two of them... had to find them, boat up to them, jump in with snorkels, and see them as they swam away... I even grabbed onto one's fin and rode it for awhile!!! Freakin AWSOME!!!
so, after that I came here, Copan.... just got in.
Unfortunatley I have little time to finish this e-mail (I almost wrote fishnish)... so it is being cut short.
Well. I am headed to Panajachel next, and Semana Santa is up and coming, 20th to the 27th, which should be an interesting festival.... we'll see what adventures it brings!
Whalesharks!!!!
Zac
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