Good or Bad Karma?

Well after much deliberation in Belize City with photos and video tape, we caught the plane to San Pedro Sula in Honduras. Rufas had a crazy travel agent that spelt our names wrong on our ticketand told him there were no flights to La Ceiba. We arrived for a plane change in El Salvador, and I, in classic fashion, found locals that were more than willing to try and talk to us. Befoer we knew it they were telling us about planes, trains and taxis that could get us to La Ceiba... with much discussion of whether we really wanted to be there or not (as it is a very transient town and a little rough)
We arrived in San Pedro Sula and rushed through customs (missing my tie on bag that had my yoga mat in it :( but chose to move on or miss the La Ceiba flight.

We got to the closed ticket counter and asked for two tickets...she said you will have to carry your packs on with you....NO PROBLEM!!! We ran up the tar mat to a little chicken box plane and were laughing..

When we arrived in La Ceiba, we grabbed our bags and two of the locals that we had chatted to before invited us with them...we caught a ride with Samir to his friends unfinished hotel....they took us all over to bank machines and to get water and back to a very fancy room guarded by rotweilers (Brutus bit one of the worker guys...but liked Rufas and I because we fed them chicken haha)

They gave us a ride to the ferry terminal and Samir gave us his number and told us he would pick us up and take us around if we were in La Ceiba again..otherwise we were to give him a call if we were to hit Toronto ( turns out he has been living there for the last 20 years..really sweet guy) I told Rufas that it is surprising sometime the people that take me under their wing...he said it was good Karma because we would do the same for others....he laughed and said that I even pick up stray dogs..which is true!

However upon trying to test our Karma theory out, we hit some bad Karma at the ferry dock. Rufas stood in line for almost two hours to have the guy in line beside him steal the last three tickets right from his teller! The next ferry wasn{t until 4:30 in th afternoon.

We chatted to some travellers..got some info and headed to the airport to check out flights...caught one an hour and half after we arrived...We were in Roatan before the first ferry practically arrived. Its a beautiful little place with great food... but it is insane during Holy week!!! We ran into the couple that were on the same flight from Belize City that we were on...we recognized them right awy because they were in the same clothes! Any passenger that had a straight through ticket to La Ceiba ( rather than a mad dash with a backpack) had not recieved their luggage..instead it was in New York!! ( Once again the good Karma bad travel agent worked in our favour)

The final good Karma revelation was that the morning ferry that we missed by three tickets turned out to be the roughest ride on the sea..all of the people were seasick. The British couple with the lost luggage said that they had never seen that many people heaving over the side rail..they had hit a wave that put the whole fairy below sea level and then rocked them back up to the top. We ended up in a flight that cost us the same as the ferry that landed in Roatan in 10 minutes....very good Karma!

Are we still in Roatan?...Nope Too busy we have relocated to Uttila Caye and are in laid back dive centre that costs us 6 dollars a night U.S hanging out on hammocks and doing some dives. the diving is 0nly about twenty dollars a dive and when you take a course the accomodation is free. We are signed up to take a wreck diving course with Cross Creek. It is going ot be fantastic. But Rufas is done his work-out and we are going to see if there is a sailing trip back up to Belize city..it would mean a few more dives and some fishing along the reef on our way back home...so far the Honeymoon is amazing...

I will try and post some pics next time

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