I’m in Utila, an island off Honduras in the Caribbean Sea.
I’m having a delightfully relaxing time. Swear. Yes, my rental apartment was infested with fleas when I got here, but the fresh mangoes, the bathwater sea, and the strange Spanish spoken here are mesmerizing. I’ve already forgotten everything about the U.S. Something about a melting pot and hula hoops?
I’m sitting right now on a balcony under a canopy of green banana and avocado trees. I hiked three hours this morning (read: got really lost). Nobody around to ask. Nothing around but a family of horses, lots of lizards, and silence. YES!
I took a catamaran to get here, and as I waited for my skipper yesterday, a local guy warned me.
“Don’t go to Utila, he said. “There’s absolutely nothing to do there.”
Exactly.
Mother and daughter! I thought it was cute until I heard them fighting. I think the mother resents the daughter for ruining her twenties. That’s just what I got out of it.
“Kool Music Clean Toilet” Marketing geniuses on this here island.
So far the only friend I’ve met here. His name is Bob.
Doesn’t sound like a local name, but he was totally born here.
This Osama picture and Sherwin-Williams calendar were posted behind a bakery’s display case. I decided not to patronize the place. Not because I felt hated as a Westerner at a place in support of terrorists. More because I much prefer Glidden or Behr.
Heading down under there tomorrow for some diving. See you again soon unless my air tank explodes and/or a shark eats me and/or Osama is actually hiding here under the sea.
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13 responses to “This post is, like, so international.”
Glad you are having such a wonderful trip. Well, except for the terrorist thing….
And seriously, that is a fine looking cock. ;)
Osama was buried at sea. So our terrorist, Muslim, Kenyan president tells us.
Laurenne, so glad you are still with us. Have fun tomorrow. Is the internet free in your apartment? Have you seen any live people?
Utila is also famous for divers encountering the Whale Shark migrating through the waters of Utila. The Whale Shark is the world’s largest fish. The slow moving Whale Shark is a harmless zooplankton, snapper egg and shrimp eating fish which grows up to 12-18 meters in length.
I have jelly on my face (that’s what my Mom calls it when someone is jealous, although while typing that out I just realized it sounds more perverted than cute…). You seriously kick Eat Pray Love’s ass.
I see my “I’m jelly” line has been used in other cases, Interesting. Apparently I’m not the first to use that. Dammit.
The more distressing thing about the Osama billboard is that they have a “2011” sticker. Do they need to be reminded what year they’re in? How many times have you seen a present year sticker in the US? Rhymes with hero.
Dude, bring me back a Super Baliadas. I don’t know what that is, but if it’s super it can’t be bad. See: Superman, Super Mario Bros, Super Nintendo, Supernova, West Hollywood slang. Dont see: Superintendent Thomas of the Woodbridge Township schools. He was mean.
I hope you become pen-pals with Bob.
i totally love behr. It’s like the rolls-royce of residential grade paints. x
I think Bob is a relative of the “dead chicken in the middle of the road” (family joke)
Wow!!! I wanna go!
I want to go to there.
Hi! alone…with cats sent me from the trailer park because i’m headed to Utila in about four weeks for a dive trip! i will find Bob. and i might take the little girl horse out for drinks and tell her how to deal with an overbearing mother…