Travel Day From Hell...Worser Than Other Day

So lets just say that I didn't wake up early. I mean I woke up early but not early enough. I woke up sometime after 5 am and started getting ready. Oh... did I say I packed yesterday? Well not really. I started to pack and didn't quite finish as I had handwashed and my clothes were on the line drying. When I got up I checked my clothes most of them were not completely dry. So I decided to cook and get ready and see if they would dry by then. I showered first and then ate. I then checked my clothes again and decided to pack them up even though some were still a bit damp. I then packed up the rest of my stuff, paid my bill, and said goodbye to Guillermo and his mom. I then walked up the street to hail a cab. I walked to one of the main roads and hailed a cab. The cab took me to the main bus terminal. I waited for maybe 20 minutes before catching a bus to Esteli. Along the ride the guy that collects the cash called out for the bus to Ocotal so I got off and got on the bus to Ocotal. So basically I got lucky as now I didn't have to go to the Esteli bus terminal and catch a bus to Ocotal. When I got to the Ocotal bus station I had to wait for the bus to come in. It was not around 10:20 am and I had to wait about 20 minutes to catch the bus. During that time I walked around the bus terminal which had a market and bought some fruit and chips. When the bus to the Las Manos (the border) came I got on. The bus ride was a little more than 1 hour. When we got to the border they let us off the bus so that we could make our fun trek across the ooh so fun border. Like all the other borders it was confusing. Now they call it immigration instead of customs. I had to wait in a line to get through immigration. It was a bit confusing as this was the first border where you could enter and leave the country at the same window. Also they were moving extra slow. I mean extra slow. And when I got to the window I had to pay yet again. And then the guy didn't have change or something so I had to wait on the side until the other officer could give me change. I then got my passport stamped and off I went. I walked past some police officers but no one shouted out anything at me until I walked past the next office I needed to go to. I went to the Honduran border and again had to pay even though Lonely Planet doesn't have any mention of paying any money. I then walked toward another officer who checked my passport and then let me go. I then walked up to a office on the side of the road that said customs and asked if there was a bus straight to Tegucigalpa (the capital) and was told yes. There was a guy on a bus and he told me that I could take this bus to some town and then catch a bus to Tegucigalpa. I was reluctant until he said the bus to Tegucigalpa doesn't come until 2 pm and it was only almost 1 pm. So I decided to take this bus and then go to Tegucigalpa. I got to the other town and then was able to buy a ticket to Tegucigalpa. This bus was a minibus and to get by people you had to brush by people. Basically some part of your body is touching theirs as you walk by. Along the way to Tegucigalpa the bus broke down. We had to wait for maybe 1 hour until the another bus came to take us on our way. When we finally got to Tegucigalpa the bus dropped us off on the side of the road. I then had to take an overpriced taxi to the bus office to go to La Gauma to get to my final destination. When I got to the bus office I found out that it didn't stop in La Gauma and that it only went directly to San Pedro Sula. I was told there was another bus down the street that stopped in La Guama so I went in search of it. When I found it I was told there weren't anymore buses tonight and I could take one at 6 am. So I decided to go look for a hotel. I had heard that Tegucigalpa isn't the safest city so I was not looking forward to staying here. I walked to 3 hotels and was about to walk to a 4th when a guy stopped me and asked me where I was going. I told him I was looking for a hotel since I couldn't go to La Guama tonight and he told me I could. He took me to a bus office (which he works for) and I bought my ticket. We then had to wait on the bus because they didn't want to leave until the bus filled up. Again we were in a minibus. When the bus finally filled up we were off. We took a rest break maybe 2 hours into the ride. Now here comes the part from hell... So by now it was quite dark. We had left after 5 pm and the bus ride is suppose to take about 3 hours. So when we got to La Guama, my stop, it was dark. Now I was expecting to be dropped off at a bus terminal where I would be able to catch the next bus. Nope. Basically they dropped me off on the side of the road. Literally the side of the road. I asked before I got off if there was any buses to Pena Blanca and they told me no not til the morning. So when I got off I stood for a minute and looked around. I then walked down the street to look at a sign to see where the hotel (on the sign was). I thought it was .6 km but it said 6 km, I later found out. So I walked across to the police station. I asked the police if there were any buses. He said no. I then asked if there were any taxi's. I was told no. I then asked if there was any hotels. I was told no. So I asked what should I do and the police officer kind of just looked at me. The whole time I talked to the police he kind of looked at me with a kind of indifference or not at all as he was watching TV. I don't think that he even cared that I was stranded. Welcome to Honduras!!! So I kind of walked around a bit and tried to figure out what to do. At one point I thought of walking down the road -the dark no lit road-to find the hotel until the police office told me that it was 6 km away. I then thought of hitching a ride but didn't really want to. Eventually I just sat down on the bench and decided I would just sleep there. I mean what else could I do? I didn't ask the police officer I just kind of sat down and took naps. I was taking a nap when a truck full of police officers came and woke me up. They brought in a prisoner who was handcuffed and a lady whom I believed was his wife. I moved over so they could sit on the bench next to me as there was only one bench. They said some stuff, asked some questions, then removed his handcuffs so I guess he was harmless. The police officer whom I had talked to (name is Garcia) took him in the back while his wife waited on the bench with me. Maybe 30 or so minutes later Garcia brought him back out and the other police officers came and got him. During my stay there was a young girl walking around talking to the police officer. I dozed back off until I was awoken by something flying into my shoulder. I screamed and a lady officer came out of the back room to see what was wrong. Apparently they had changed shifts. So I told her something had flew into my shoulder. She didn't even seem concerned and went back in the back room. I thought it was a bat so I was extra scared but found out it was just a bird when I moved the bench. The bird then flew off into the back room. The lady came back and gave me a chair so I could be more comfortable. She came back a little bit later with a baby. I then dozed on and off throughout the night. During the remainder of the night other police officers would come in and some other random people that talked to the police officer. Basically they had no regard that I was trying to sleep. Throughout the night I woke up several times and finally got up at 5 am to begin waiting for the bus. All in all a terrible day for traveling. I started to blame myself for leaving 2 hours later but at this point I really don't think it matters. I don't think it would have made much of a difference since the buses stopped running around 6 pm (or so they said).


Police Station where I spent a night