Honduras

Well, I writing about last week since I have been on a constant and unrelantly pace the last week.

I arrived safely in Honduras, 5 minutes before closing. The only non government man was a money changer with a nice big glock 9 pistol in his belt so I could see it, well I found someone to give me a ride into town..
I went on another horse back ride around the pine'oak countryside and learned that most Hondurans do not truts their government, so there more apt to have weapons to protect themselves from some corrupt policeman..The next day I met a guy from Chicago and we both wanted to climb the tallest mountain in Honduras and the biggest cloudforest..
He had a tent, I had a sleeping bag also..So instead of doing a day hike we decided to hike up 8 hours into a moss'orchid'bromeliad covered old'growth forest which looked like a scene of ¨lord of the Rings¨or some other black forest...There in the cloudforest was Quetzals, one of the most beautiful and endangered bird know to man...They sang some beautiful songs that night,,I could not sleep do to the eerie sounds and 40 degree cold weather...
Waking up at first light I made a fire and made some oatmeal and coffee in an old sardine can while using pine needles for a quick fire..Now fired up I leave to climb to the top a 2.5 hr uphill hike in absolutely strange and beatiful country where light rarely shines and tree ferts reach up to 30 ft tall and 8 inches thick...As I get close to the top we go over the cloud forest and it is arid so it gave us a crazy view of the surrounding moutains and I could see the volcanoes in El Salvador...
To keep it short, we almost jog back down to camp cleanup and descend the remaing 6000 ft at a very rapid pace to make it back before dark.. ALL in all it is was a strenouse 17 hr hike..
The banks are closed so I searched all over town someone who would take and change 20 dollars and I did..
The next morning I woke very early and started my trip to La Paz, where I now am working on a construction project,,, Thats later..