A rainy day update...
Well hello again. They say there are three lies common in Utila:
1) this is my last beer
2) I am leaving tomorrow
3) I love you
the last did not apply to me, but I did have plenty of problems with the first two. But, I am excited to report, that while I still struggle with the first (I have resigned to the belief that that one will plague me all my remaining years no matter where I go...), we did manage to get our butts off the island!! Do not mock me, it was a feat that took great strength!
We are currently residing in Copan, Honduras. We got lucky and caught a ride almost the entire way here with the people who were in my diving course...once again managing to avoid hours on sweaty chicken buses!
Copan is famous for the ruins left behind from the Mayas, so the first thing we did here was walk over to see them. INCREDIBLE! But the sight left my little mind with a ton of questions -
- where did they find all the stones to build these extravagant temples and pyramids and casas?
- who the heck had that much patience to build and carve these elaborate structures of stone with stone tools?
- how did people shorter then me (yes it is true! their beds would have had me half on the floor!!! sorry, it just made me happy to know there were people I could beat in a basketball match at one time inhabiting the earth) anyhow - how did they climb those steep stairs?
I could go on with the millions of questions I have and the fascination it aroused, but suffice to say I was impressed beyond my impressiveness at the construction of the Calgary Tower. It is an archeologists haven, a photographers paradise, and one of the most peaceful places on earth.
Today we woke up to rain. Plenty of it, and so for the fourth time in over two months, I am wearing long pants before 8 pm. And I am using this entry as an excuse to stay dry awhile as well as share my take on this town. The first night the bugs here attacked me something terrible - I could get ointment for measles from any legitimate doctor if I was so inclined just by showing him/her my left leg! But aside from that this place is great. The people here treat us like we were all close friends in a past life. The hilly cobblestone streets are at times trecherous, but very pretty. The food is both yummy and cheap. And there is a great restaurant called Twisted Tanya´s...sigh...of all the homes I have had these past few weeks, Copan ranks one of my favorites!
We will spend another night or two here and enjoy the hotsprings or waterfall or bird park or the Copan river on a horse´s back, if the rain lets up, before we cross another border into the much anticipated country of Guatemala!
So that is it for now. Except for a thank you for the comments and emails! I can´t figure out how to reply to comments on this thing and the spanish instructions are not yet in my realm of comprehension (if they even are instructions - they could be a recipe for tortillas for all I know!) so I may not have responded, but I do appreciate them just the same!
1) this is my last beer
2) I am leaving tomorrow
3) I love you
the last did not apply to me, but I did have plenty of problems with the first two. But, I am excited to report, that while I still struggle with the first (I have resigned to the belief that that one will plague me all my remaining years no matter where I go...), we did manage to get our butts off the island!! Do not mock me, it was a feat that took great strength!
We are currently residing in Copan, Honduras. We got lucky and caught a ride almost the entire way here with the people who were in my diving course...once again managing to avoid hours on sweaty chicken buses!
Copan is famous for the ruins left behind from the Mayas, so the first thing we did here was walk over to see them. INCREDIBLE! But the sight left my little mind with a ton of questions -
- where did they find all the stones to build these extravagant temples and pyramids and casas?
- who the heck had that much patience to build and carve these elaborate structures of stone with stone tools?
- how did people shorter then me (yes it is true! their beds would have had me half on the floor!!! sorry, it just made me happy to know there were people I could beat in a basketball match at one time inhabiting the earth) anyhow - how did they climb those steep stairs?
I could go on with the millions of questions I have and the fascination it aroused, but suffice to say I was impressed beyond my impressiveness at the construction of the Calgary Tower. It is an archeologists haven, a photographers paradise, and one of the most peaceful places on earth.
Today we woke up to rain. Plenty of it, and so for the fourth time in over two months, I am wearing long pants before 8 pm. And I am using this entry as an excuse to stay dry awhile as well as share my take on this town. The first night the bugs here attacked me something terrible - I could get ointment for measles from any legitimate doctor if I was so inclined just by showing him/her my left leg! But aside from that this place is great. The people here treat us like we were all close friends in a past life. The hilly cobblestone streets are at times trecherous, but very pretty. The food is both yummy and cheap. And there is a great restaurant called Twisted Tanya´s...sigh...of all the homes I have had these past few weeks, Copan ranks one of my favorites!
We will spend another night or two here and enjoy the hotsprings or waterfall or bird park or the Copan river on a horse´s back, if the rain lets up, before we cross another border into the much anticipated country of Guatemala!
So that is it for now. Except for a thank you for the comments and emails! I can´t figure out how to reply to comments on this thing and the spanish instructions are not yet in my realm of comprehension (if they even are instructions - they could be a recipe for tortillas for all I know!) so I may not have responded, but I do appreciate them just the same!
posted by Tanya K at
11:18 AM
1 Comments:
Happy New Year and of course Христос Народився! (That's Ukrainian for Christ is Born or more commonly 'Merry Christmas'!) I think I have the Ukr keyboard figured out! The fish world is something else and ruins like that make one wonder, don't they! Take care.
Luv A. Dino
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