Day 110 - Saturday 7th Janaury 2006

6am. That was the time that the only ferry to mainland Honduras left from Utila. So it was that after 4 hours sleep we found ourselves bleary eyed and wandering the 500m or so to the ferry terminal. We boarded and waited around, and the ferry eventually set sail at about 7am. The delay didn´t really worry me, as I had found myself a comfortable chair and was happily sleeping the time away.

I woke up just in time to see the boat dock in La Ceiba, where we all madfe our way to the bus terminal. After a quick goodbye, Ben and Tom boarded their bus heading off towards Mexico City, splitting up the group for this trip. Ryan, Angus and myself got on our own bus and began the 8 hour trip to Tegucigalpa, the capital of Honduras.

The breaking up of the group left everyone a little down, and I for one found myself thinking about home and how long it would be before I would see family and friends again. Its a horrible feeling being homesick, for me personally when I miss home I have a feeling of butterflies in my stomach and I start to feel a bit nauseous. Although it doesn´t happen very often I can pretty much tell when I will be homesick, as it usually happends when I am on buses or am tired. I know its nothing to really worry about, so whenever I start to feel like that I try to think about other things, read a book or take a nap.

The feeling of homesickness passed and I was able to pass the trip with a mixture of reading, listening to music, looking out of the window and dozing. After getting on the ferry at 6am, we finally made it to Tegus at about 7pm. We phoned Carlos, the Honduran guy who had offered to put us up for our stay in town. He came and picked us up from the bus station and after dropping our bags off at his place we all went for some much needed dinner. Carlos is studying ot be a civil engineer, and speaks perfect English, in fact it is amazing how well he speaks it considering he has never studied in an English speaking country.

We chatted for a few hours about a whole range of subjects. Carlos is an intelligent guy, and he was very keen to get a viewpoint of how Europeans think and what the general stance is on political and social issues. The night soon got pretty late, and tired from our boat and bus journeys, we hit the sack so as to be ready for Carlos´ guided tour of Tegus in the morning.