My Favorite Things About Teguc (so far)

My Five Favorite Things About Living in Tegucigalpa:
1. Driving here can be quite the adrenaline rush - it's like being in a video game: The streets are not that busy (nothing like Cairo) but they are a little on the lawless side.  There are traffic lights but that doesn't mean you always have to follow them.  There are stop signs but those are obeyed even less frequently.  There are buses and taxis which all function on their own agendas.  And then there are the potholes.  Some will swallow you alive, such as the sink hole just around the corner from us, and the jagged craters that can sprout up overnight.  The only thing I worry about are the police checkpoints because you never know what that might entail.

2. Coffee, coffee, coffee: You can buy a pound of really good Honduran coffee for about $1.50. Since my mornings tend to revolve around my coffee intake, this is a source of happiness for me.

3. Cuban cigars and cheap beer: The Honduran beer is pretty good - there are about four or five kinds that we have tried and all are good.  My favorite is the slightly darker and heavier Imperial.  And Cubans are available throughout Central America and not that expensive (the cigars, not actual Cubans.). 

4. Travel, travel, travel: Even a short day trip to a nearby town is exciting when you've never been there.  We are within a few hours of both El Salvador and Nicaragua as well as the Pacific coast of Honduras.  So far we have ventured to Guatemala, the Caribbean coast, the Mayan ruins of Copan, Lake Yojoa, and several towns and villages within a few hours of Teguc. We have trips planned to the Pacific and Costa Rica in the next two months.  I am also hoping we can get to Cuba and Peru over the next year.

5. Tropical weather: The sun shines almost every day and the temperature never seems to get below 75 degrees. Luckliy, we are inland and up in the mountains (although they are quite low in elevation for mountains) so it doesn't get all that hot most of the year.  It seems like we have had six months of days in the 80's and our "winter" consisted of nearly a week of windy, cool weather with a little rain.