Bus to La Cieba

01.7.19 3:06 pm Bus to La Cieba

Just wrapped up the final difficult part of our ChickbusJourney to La Cieba. Managed to get tix on the apparently seond class bus.

The bus no sooner left the crazy station before some religous guy stands up and asks if anyone follows the word of god...they raise hands, then start applausing for something, presumably for him to continue blithering. So he says hes gonna break out into prayer, and rips out of his ass this massively long prayer, with full on super oration skills, pastorizing as best he can. When he's done, and asks for support to continue, he pulls out visal aids and talks aboutdifferent kinds of people...those without eyes or something. Strangely enough, I recall trying to comprehend similar outbursts in the past, and wasnt really able to follow the whole thing. This time, I compreheneded everything, and I wasnt able to rune it out.

Well, I took care of that by putting on the ol' headphones.

ok, get this, he just wlaked past and tried to sell me a toothbrush. Now I get it, he didn't say someone with no eyes, but no teeth. He's somesort of modern day version of a cross between the old travelling salesman selling his cureall tonic, and the jonny appleseed of toothbrushes. He's sold quite a few also. What a great guy. Hard to believe someone can make a living selling toothbrushes on the bus.

So I alsmost got ran over by two different buses today. Typically, in a normal day in CA, I'll manage to avoid flattenment by one bus, but two, today, was a bit much.

But first I'll recount what happened today and what I learned. I've been travelling with Tobias - who crazilly is on the same one year quit the job travel thing. So we are both heading to Utlia, which sounds erielly like the mayan word for Good, Utz, as in Utzilla....or perhaps more like a character that godzilla would take on.

Now toothbrush man is selling calenderplanner things.

So we decided to leave today, and didn't feel like leaving on the 7am or 6am bus. Or even the 8am. We checked with our dude, and he said the bus to La Cieba left at 6, 7, ,8, and 9. Directo...? Si, directo.

So we walked out of the hotel and up to the seminice bus that was parked outside, and realized that wasn't out bus. It was some school trip bus or somethinig full of students. Our bus was the one behind it....decked out with the chickenbus requisite top luggage rack. Well, we knew another first class bus left at 2pm, and asked how long this one took to get to Cieba. Not to La Cieba. To La Entrada. Change to San Pedro Sula. Catch bus from SPS to La Cieba. Directo? Si.

Well, heres the lesson we learned. Directo does not mean DIRECT. It means that somehow, someway, it will get you directly there.

So how long to Entrada? Hour and a half. Anothr hour and a half to SPS. 3 hrs to Cieba from there....didn't seem much longer than the first class EXPRESS bus. Expreso is the key term here. Must remember not to use directo. Spanish has a few of these Superambiguous terms....

Ahorita (Literal xlation - right now. Actual xlation always varies but typically isn't En Este Momento)

Directo

Si (Literal translation, yes. Other meanings include: Fuck off. Bite me gringo. No. Example sentence: Do you have hot water? Si. )

No se (i don't know. Also means, leave me alone)

Buen precio. (Good price. Bad price more often)

I guess its the same anywhere, but its funny how you try so long and so hard to comprehend the language, then to find out the precious words you now understand don't mean what you learned they mean.

So we hopped on the bus, planning to get to Entrada, whereever that is, and then pop to SPS to Cieba. No problem, amigo.

We stopped at every little pissant town between Copan and Entrada. We stopped for every person standing on the side of the road. We stopped for every dog that barked. We even stopped for no reason a few times. Finally rolled into Entrada about 3 hours later. "SAN PEDRO???" Si. Directo? Si. Cuando? Ahorita. Tiempo para usar el bano? No, ahorita.

Go figure