I finished all my lab work (what needed to be done in Belize since I could not export the artifacts) on Wednesday. Very exciting. On Thursday morning Willa, Margaret and I took a boat to Guatemala and then got on a bus to a city near the border of Honduras. When we got off the bus at 4 pm we had likely missed the last bus to the border town of El Florido before the Honduran border closed at 6 pm. It was a stressful situation, but kind of hilarious in retrospect. We got off the bus and I was yelling at all the bus and microbus (kind of like a VW bus or a large passenger van) "necesito bus or microbus para El Florid" and got all sorts of contradictory information. In reality, it might have been accurate, I just couldn't understand what was going on. Finally we got on a microbus that was supposed to go to El Florido. It was so packed the sliding door didn't close and people were hanging out the side of the vehicle. After about an hour on this bus an employee told us we needed to get off and switch micro buses. I had no idea what was going on or if we would even make it to the Honduran border before it closed. Luckily we made there with ten minutos to spare at 5:50 pm (we found out once we got there that it actually stays open to pedestrian crossing until 7:00 so I did not need to stress as much as I did). When we pulled into Copan Ruinas, the town next to the Maya site Copan and saw Matt at Cafe ViaVia waiting for us I was so happy. This whole traveling in Guatemala and Honduras with no espanol is tricky. If I come back I totally need to relearn the language.
Copan was amazing. I'm so glad I finished my lab work so I could do this traveling.
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