I am so excited to be heading to Copan Ruinas, Honduras this weekend to celebrate the marriage of two dear friends: Jodi and Kraig!! In addition to the celebration, Javier and I have been looking forward to taking a short vacation together...something with which we haven't had much experience.
After an expected "fijase" with the hotel which required us to find a new one, we were surprised by the one that came from the bus company, Hedman Alas...a reliable name in transport. We had desired to return to Guatemala on Sunday, as all the wedding guests will, at that point, be clearing out...back to the States or on to Roatan to spend the honeymoon with the happy couple. When Javier called me from the bus depot saying: "We have a problem..." I was not expecting it to be quite so political. The bus lady (as Javier affectionately called her) informed him that they would not have bus service to/from Honduras that Sunday due to elections. Wait...what? Presidential elections? Congressional? Did he hear her right? What did an election have to do with buses? I did some quick research and found that general elections in Honduras are held at the end of November. I double checked that the bus lady understood we wanted to return THIS Sunday...in June. She understood, but no one at the bus company had any more information than that. So, our choice was to return either Saturday or Monday. Seeing as we would actually like to be at the wedding on Saturday, we had to opt for the extra night/day and return on Monday. It wasn't until checking the news today that I began to understand why buses may be choosing not to run on Sunday:
After an expected "fijase" with the hotel which required us to find a new one, we were surprised by the one that came from the bus company, Hedman Alas...a reliable name in transport. We had desired to return to Guatemala on Sunday, as all the wedding guests will, at that point, be clearing out...back to the States or on to Roatan to spend the honeymoon with the happy couple. When Javier called me from the bus depot saying: "We have a problem..." I was not expecting it to be quite so political. The bus lady (as Javier affectionately called her) informed him that they would not have bus service to/from Honduras that Sunday due to elections. Wait...what? Presidential elections? Congressional? Did he hear her right? What did an election have to do with buses? I did some quick research and found that general elections in Honduras are held at the end of November. I double checked that the bus lady understood we wanted to return THIS Sunday...in June. She understood, but no one at the bus company had any more information than that. So, our choice was to return either Saturday or Monday. Seeing as we would actually like to be at the wedding on Saturday, we had to opt for the extra night/day and return on Monday. It wasn't until checking the news today that I began to understand why buses may be choosing not to run on Sunday:
And, as I have continued to read various articles,(hard-found) on this topic, I have wondered...are we, in light of events here in Guatemala, going to be jumping from the frying pan into the fire on this trip? And maybe more importantly (and sadly), if Central American countries such as Guatemala and Honduras had oil or nukes would this information have been 1) more easily found and 2) something people in other parts of the world would care about?
I write to ask for prayers for the situation in Honduras, as well as here; for the bridal couple who has long awaited this time, and for all of their guests who will need to be traveling through Honduras on this day that not even the buses will run...
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