An Interesting Road to Guanaja!

We are on our way to Gaunaja. We have chosen not to fly to our bay island paradise, but enjoy some of the Honduran scenery and countryside. If we truly want to make this our new home we need to learn something of its ways and culture. Coming from the US, we sometimes forget that not everyone lives the way that we do and it is so very important not to judge, but to observe and realize that there are many "right" way to do things.

Below is a picture of Miguel, our taxi driver, drinking a Pepsi. He thought I was "locco" to take a picture of him drinking, but beverages are served, especially on the mainland in plastic bags with straws. This eliminates the need for large paper cups that would have to go into the landfills and are much cheaper to provide. I still haven't figured out how he really drank this while driving the car and I probably really don't want to know. Just a small way that Honduras goes "green"!




Next is an entrepreneur. This gentleman is collecting recyclable metal. I guess the price of fuel became too much for him and he uses man power to get around on his bicycle cart. He was going down the road next to all the new cars and trucks on a main highway. Many locals still use a horse and cart.


Another young business man we passed was holding up an Iguana for sale on the side of the roadway. Why would anyone want to buy one of those, I asked? Miguel gave me one of those looks and said that the local people like to eat them. YIKES! He said, not to worry, they taste a lot like ... you guessed it ....Chicken!

On our journey to Trujillo we passed by many banana and pineapple farms.... most of these belonged to Dole, or Standard Fruit as some call it. They have been large property owners in Honduras for many years. The interesting part here is decoration on the banana trees. Once the stacks of bananas have formed they put these blue plastic bags over them for protection from unwanted beasties. Coming from hurricane ridden Florida, this brought back memories of all the blue tarped roofs. I wonder if this is where all the extra tarps the US produced went?

Next time you buy a banana in the store think of this image!

The picture below is a Honduran cattle drive. These ol' doggies are being driven right on the side of the road....occasionally one of the unruly ones steps into the road so caution is advised! During our 3 hour trip to Trujillo we saw a cowboy on a bicycle herding cows as well as a motorcycle. Everyone of them just doing his job the best way they could.


Honduras is an interesting place for a spoiled American. I find it fascinating and wonder if I could live under such conditions. One thing I found out from driving though mainland Honduras is, just because you only have a two lane road, it does not mean that you can't have four lanes of traffic and a pedestrian or two along the way. This brings a whole new meaning to "fasten your seatbelts"!

Well, we are almost to our destination of Guanaja. We plan on laying over in Trujillo for a couple of days until the ferry leaves on Sunday and we will stay at the Casa Alemania right on the beach.

Don't worry, I'll tell you all about it tomorrow!

Guanaja Honduras is truly a Bay Island paradise, but the coast of Honduras has a lot to offer.