A New Year, A New Adventure

Well, its almost exactly a year later, and we find ourselves once again in Central America. For those of you who don't know, this years expedition is to a small Bay Island called Utila, off the coast of Honduras. Ahnna and I flew into San Pedro Sula today at noon after a grueling 15 hours of air travel that bounced us from Seattle to Los Angeles to Houston and finally to San Pedro Sula. I can honestly say that I have never had a worse flight experience. Both Ahnna and I seem to have come down with relatively minor sinus colds, nothing to worry about until you gain altitudes of 10,000 feet and greater and the slight preasure magnafies within your skull until you swear your eyeballs are going to explode out of their sockets and ricoche into you neighbors ginger ale. I think I had the worse time of it, ahnna's head didn't get as sharp, she just felt dull pain and stuffiness. The one saving grace was that for the first two flights we got the emergency exit rows so i had enough room that i could actually sleep without doing permanent postural damage to my neck. Anyway, enough bitching.

We are currently staying at La Posada B&B. It cost us 60 dollars US for a pickup from the airport and a night in a private room with AC and TV. The bed is amazingly comfortable (I'm sitting on it as i type, hurray wireless internet!) and the people have been very friendly and helpfull. Tomorrow morning we head to La Ceiba at 6am so we can try to catch the ferry that leaves from there at 9:30. its a 3 hour bus ride, so we will be cutting it kinda close. Once we get to the island we will head to The Bay Islands College of Diving where i am planning to enroll in a course to get my Dive Master Certification. From our Research it looks like once you choose a diveshop, there are many on the island to choose from, you get to stay at whatever hostel or hotel they are affiliated with at incredibly cheap rates, something like 2-6 dollars per night. I plan to do some asking around to make sure that the Bay Islands College of diving is the best on the island, but from my online research they seem to be the best outfit and the most involved in whaleshark research, which is one of the reasons i'm down here. This time of year is when they are migrating through, and i am hoping to get a chance to swim with and maybe touch the biggest fish in the world. I am concerned about my sinus issue geting in the way of my diving, but its rather minor like i said so hopefully it will be gone by the end of the week.

While I seach for a dive shop to affiliate myself with, both Ahnna and I will be looking for an apartment to rent for the two months we are planning to stay. Ahnna probably won't do too much scuba diving, but she hopes to get a job at a bar on the island and get some bartending experience and hopefully do alot of painting and being creative, not to mention plenty of reading and tanning and just plain relaxing and enjoying a break from the ratrace americans have come to call life.

So thats it for now, anyone who wants to can reach us through e-mail or skype. my skype ID is christopher.colwell my e-mail may be changing because Gmail seems to not like my new little computer. I'll post my new one if i decide thats necessary. Thanks for reading, we miss you all.