Crusing into Honduras - Tuesday 16 Feb
Travel definitely gets easier after Guatemala, Guatemala City, and the Mexican Frontier.
Today we got up a little late, about 6:30 , and left the hotel and pulled in at Rosaria's Comedor, a little restaurant. Had a nice breakfast of scrambled eggs, refried black beans, goat cheese, and corn tortillas and black coffee - about $2.00 each for us gringoes.
Then off to Honduras. It took a couple of hours to reach the border. It is named Florida. It is a little country border crossing. Very little commercial traffic and very little auto traffic. We first went to Customs, and got the car checked out of Guatemala, and off Tim's passport. Very simple - easy. Then we went over to the Guatemala immigration office and found out that the Guatemala visa for 90 days would also allow us into Honduras, after we paid Guatemala 40 quezales- about $5.00 - each.
At the Honduran immigration, right next door to the Guatemala office, they had to record our names and passport number in a book, handwritten not computer entry, then they charged us
$3.00 each. And voila - we were in Honduras. But not the car. For that we walked down the road about 30 yards to another little wooden building that contained the Honduran Customs people. They were very nice, low key, and just asked for Tim's papers, and after stamping everything, the lady told us we needed two copíes of a document she had just created. Tim had copies for all other documents.
The Customs office did not have a copy machine, and we were told that the store up the road had one. So we set off, about 200 yards up the road. That business- whatever it was- had a copier but we were told it did not work and no hint of who else had one. We went to the whiskey store next door and they told us the bank, back down the street across from the customs office had a machine! So--- back down the hill to the first office in the bank building. There machine was not working- but they told us to continue down the hall, last office on right had a copier. The man in this office told us to go back to the first place we had gone and so we had to explain that we had been there and the machine did not work, and the one in the bank did not work. He grudgingly took our papers and made two copies. We told him thank you very much, gave him a few Limperas - Honduras money - and returned to the Customs office.
Again the Lady was very nice- took the copies - finished doing her work on the papers - more stamps etc - then told us the fee to take the car into Honduras was $35.00. SIMPLE, and that was it. We jumped into the car, smiled at everyone, and waved good bye. We went 10 yards and had to stop to show all our papers - then we were off again- to Copan, and 3 hours later we arrived at Lavearn's home...' our destination.
I'll be in Hondo till Friday night.
later
Johnny
ps - the reason I used the dash so much is I can not find the comma on the keyboard!
Today we got up a little late, about 6:30 , and left the hotel and pulled in at Rosaria's Comedor, a little restaurant. Had a nice breakfast of scrambled eggs, refried black beans, goat cheese, and corn tortillas and black coffee - about $2.00 each for us gringoes.
Then off to Honduras. It took a couple of hours to reach the border. It is named Florida. It is a little country border crossing. Very little commercial traffic and very little auto traffic. We first went to Customs, and got the car checked out of Guatemala, and off Tim's passport. Very simple - easy. Then we went over to the Guatemala immigration office and found out that the Guatemala visa for 90 days would also allow us into Honduras, after we paid Guatemala 40 quezales- about $5.00 - each.
At the Honduran immigration, right next door to the Guatemala office, they had to record our names and passport number in a book, handwritten not computer entry, then they charged us
$3.00 each. And voila - we were in Honduras. But not the car. For that we walked down the road about 30 yards to another little wooden building that contained the Honduran Customs people. They were very nice, low key, and just asked for Tim's papers, and after stamping everything, the lady told us we needed two copíes of a document she had just created. Tim had copies for all other documents.
The Customs office did not have a copy machine, and we were told that the store up the road had one. So we set off, about 200 yards up the road. That business- whatever it was- had a copier but we were told it did not work and no hint of who else had one. We went to the whiskey store next door and they told us the bank, back down the street across from the customs office had a machine! So--- back down the hill to the first office in the bank building. There machine was not working- but they told us to continue down the hall, last office on right had a copier. The man in this office told us to go back to the first place we had gone and so we had to explain that we had been there and the machine did not work, and the one in the bank did not work. He grudgingly took our papers and made two copies. We told him thank you very much, gave him a few Limperas - Honduras money - and returned to the Customs office.
Again the Lady was very nice- took the copies - finished doing her work on the papers - more stamps etc - then told us the fee to take the car into Honduras was $35.00. SIMPLE, and that was it. We jumped into the car, smiled at everyone, and waved good bye. We went 10 yards and had to stop to show all our papers - then we were off again- to Copan, and 3 hours later we arrived at Lavearn's home...' our destination.
I'll be in Hondo till Friday night.
later
Johnny
ps - the reason I used the dash so much is I can not find the comma on the keyboard!
posted by Johnny at
12:15 PM
2 Comments:
i think the dash helps the flow, never noticed it until you mentioned it.
I'm glad you made it.
I hope you missed a key stroke when you said $3500 to take the car in! BTW, comma is right beside the M. Blessings to you both. Bob
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