pickup trucks on rafts, 18 rabbit, and horchata oatmeal.

SO I am curently in a magical hostel called yellow house. It has free internt, free purified water, a kitchen, and free breakfast... including but not limited to horchata oatmeal....que rico! This place also has brightly colored adobe walls and a roof garden with twinkly lights at night. We are in antigua guetemala... it is fantastic. It is like granada, only more bustling and filled with women and children dressed in brightly colored myan fabrics... shooting will happen soon. It also hasa volcano... now I know i said I would not be hiking any more volcanos... but this one is only a hour and a half... and you can see lava... in fact you can roast marshmellows on it. .....fantastic. Before guetemala.. we were in honduras. Most recently we were in copan, we saw some really inpressive ruins and stellas of mayan kings including 18 rabit. We also met the first group of backpackers that were enjoyable to hang out with. We decided to stay a few days ... not because there was a ton to do... but we have gone to two countries and 6 places in a week in a half maybe two weeks and our wallets and backs were a bit weary. The journey we took before the one to copan was straight out of apocalypse now. We were going to la moskitia... a enormous region with...possibly ingigenous people who live in houses on stilts, and a region with no roads. The lonly planet book told us catch a but to this town and take the pickup to moskitia then take the ferry. This is what actually happened... We arived at the bust station to find a man with no pants on in our bus.... I explained to the cab driver that he picked us up 15 min too early and he was going to let us wait in his cab for free for 15 minutes because there was "un hombre sin casa y sin pantalones en mi autobus!"... later we were escoreted by a lagre black man to our bus... he said "tranquillo" and the man who early had no pants ... had put on pants and was now selling us tickets. The bus took tice as long because the driver kept stopping to talk to his friends. When we arioved in the town, we got a cab to where we were to get the 'pickup' when the cab door opened we were surrounded by a swarm of pickup drivers calling us mamisita, mi amour, and come with me i has good price.We went with the least pushy one.... this was both a good and bad choice. Bad because he waited 2 hours to leave and did all of his personal errands along the way... but good becuase we met some missionaries who live near the place we were going and set up up witha good boat driver and place to stay.... howver all of that was hours and hours away. When the pickup finally started going there were tons of luggage on it and a few people in the back three of us in the cab.. and a baby, and the driver and his friends... i thought the bumpy roads were bad at first but that was nothing, soon we drove through rivers, then we got to a ptch only accesibly by beach... that meant driving on an angle.. half in the water and half in sand. then we got past the beach to larger rivers that we crossed by.... wait for it.... putting the entire truck on a wooden raft floated by buckets... we would all get in get on the raft and 12 year onld would pull us across with a rope... sometimes aided by a motor. After doing that for 3 times we drove an hour more and arrived at the "ferry" the "ferry" was a oversized dugout canoe... with a motor. the missionaries told us there was a big drug traficing problem here... but our driver was good. We had wanted to get to the village at 3 and had lonly planet been right we would of.. but we got into the boat as the sun set... and 5 hours later... after being scared shitless that we would be kidnaped... we arived. Our boat driver woke up xy and she gaveus a impecably clean room, with a impressive bugnet and told us she didnt want us to get malaria. It rained most of the next day but that didnt stop us from having a great time meeting people and taking pictures... we would have stayed longer than a day... but it was really just houses... no resturants, no pulperias, no electricity... so aside from shooting and going to bed at 7pm... there wasnt much. While the trip hurt my but and mad me 120 dollars more poor... it is an exsperience i will never forget.