27 December 2017 – I decided to give it another day before I
crossed the border because the other helper had pre-warned his buddy that I was
coming. So, I sat out one day so I
wouldn’t appear to be to predicable and easy pickings. Instead, I walked
downtown because I saw on Google Maps that there was a Shopping Center / Mercado.
I went down there and bought apples, bread, sandwich meat, cheese, water and a Pepsi.
I saw something in the Mercado that would alarm weight watchers around the world. Two
women bought a 12 pack of Pepsi. Each bottle was 3 quarts / 3 liters or roughly
9 gallons / 36 liters. It took both of the women to carry it. That’s a lot of
teeth rotting out of somebody’s head and a lot of extra pounds around the
middle. Or maybe they were going to soak
their car in it to remove the paint, as I’ve heard Coke will do. I have wondered about this from time to time.
I have seen one and two-liter bottles of Coca-Cola under people’s arms and that’s
all they’re drinking. I know for a fact that Coca-Cola and Pepsi dehydrate you.
I can’t even think about drinking Pepsi or Coca-Cola when riding my motorcycle.
I would be a sugar junkie and probably kill myself. I wonder if the people
realize how addictive that stuff is! Off course you can always ask this
question: could that money be better spent on the children, clothing, schooling,
medicine, home repairs or vehicles? This is the kind of stuff I shouldn’t think
about. I’m just a time traveler passing through somebody’s else world. You are
allowed to look but not judge.
I left the Mercado and was walking down the street and saw fresh
bananas for sale from a street vendor. I had to have some. So, I asked the lady
how much it cost for 2 bananas. She said the minimum quantity of bananas was
four. Her daughter whips up 10 fingers for the price. So, I countered with 5
fingers. She wasn’t buying it, 10 Lempira. I countered her price with 7 Lempira.
Nope still 10 Lempira. I countered with 9 Lempira. She said, nope 10 Lempira. I
paid her 43 cents / 10 Lempira. I was out dickered by a 10 year old girl. While
I was dickering with this girl I almost cut my forehead on the sheet metal
roof. That’s how low the roof was, or how tall I was…..mid forehead on me. I
took my food and water and went back to the hotel. I ate a pretty nice lunch
and supper.
On my computer, I was checking into the Honduras /
Nicaraguan border crossing when I found a website from May of 2016. It spelled
out the different steps in crossing the border. I read it and tried to commit
it to memory. I decided I could leave
Honduras by myself. However, getting into Nicaragua would be a different story.
I was going to cut down the copying fees which cost money. I’m going to use my
own copies which I printed out before leaving the U.S.A. If I have to I will
walk with my helper from one window to another. I want to make my presence
known. So that was my plan. I put a short cut on my cell phone desktop so I can
read about other border crossings the site talks about. I found the guy’s
comments helpful. I also spent considerable time looking at how I could bypass
the capital city of Managua. I don’t want to drive through it. I found a route
around the city.
The question is how can I tame the wild beast Blanche to
follow the route I want to go? I’m going to research making or plotting a route
on Blanche. Maybe I can build a route and she will follow it blindly. Wouldn’t
that be a novelty? I wrote down all the roads I would use. I double checked all my paper work I will need for tomorrow. I want
to be organized and look like I know what I’m doing and not be at the mercy of
some individual leading me blindly. So, I got that completed and now I must get
to bed because I want start mobilizing at 4:30 a.m. I would like to be at the
border by 6:00 / 6:30 a.m.
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