the start of a very long, incredible journey....

at the end of my second full day in honduras, i finally have time to update the blog. i feel like there is so much to write, which is probably because SO much has happened over the last few days. paul and i landed in San Pedro Sula, Honduras at 11 a.m. Wednesday, and sat in the small airport for 5 hours until our flight to Tegucigalpa, the capital. The airport in Teguc (short for Tegucigalpa, i'll use this throughout) is the airport i was supposed to fly into, but it was closed to international flights because of a plane crash that killed 5 people. One newspaper headlined the story as "aeropuerto de muerte" or, airport of death. so we finally boarded a plane to the capital...the plane we flew on is the one in the picture. definitely the smallest plane i've ever flown in. the picture of paul also has the pilot in it...this should give you an idea of how small it actually was....and when we took off, there was NO air flowing inside the cabin...and it was at least 95 degrees... it was the closest i have ever felt to panicking because of claustrophobia. luckily there was some air flowing once we were cruising, so we survived. the flight was beautiful because we could see the landscape because we were flying so low. it was so strange to arrive at the Teguc airport, where once we got off a man took pictures of us walking to the baggage claim area...just some evidence of the political strain in the country right now. we met Janet safely and drove out of the city to where we would be staying. i think i'll do posts on a day to day basis...so this was the end of traveling day. ok i'm having problems uploading the pictures along with the post, so i will get them up ASAP.