{"id":3088,"date":"2010-07-16T09:32:28","date_gmt":"2010-07-16T17:32:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.TripInsuranceStore.com\/blog\/?p=3088"},"modified":"2021-10-12T12:52:19","modified_gmt":"2021-10-12T18:52:19","slug":"its-a-long-walk-from-guatemala-to-honduras","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tripinsurancestore.com\/blog\/its-a-long-walk-from-guatemala-to-honduras\/","title":{"rendered":"It’s a Long Walk From Guatemala to Honduras"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Unless you’ve read my About Us page<\/a>, you may not know that I lived in Mexico & Guatemala from July 1985 to July 1986. That means I lived in Guatemala in during its Civil War. I learned Spanish in Antigua, Guatemala, too.<\/p>\n

In the course of the year, I traveled quite a bit. I love history and archaeology, so I was able to visit many Mayan ruins and other historical sites. And I have many fond memories of Latin America.<\/p>\n

This morning I read Shannon O’Donnell’s article ‘A Little Travel Guilt: Copan Ruins, A Necessary Third?’<\/a> which got me thinking about my own trip to Copan, Honduras.<\/p>\n

I have always been a cheapskate – that means I got to see even more out-of-the-way places (like Iximche<\/a>) due to my desire to save money on certain modes of transportation. In other words, I walked a lot more often than I had to.<\/p>\n

One of those extra walks involved leaving Guatemala and entering Honduras. It was about a mile between the Guatemalan and Honduran border posts. There were drivers who shuttled people back and forth for $.25 a ride, which I was happy to pay.<\/p>\n

Unfortunately, the price for an American male was $3 which I didn’t want to pay. It started at $6, but the lowest I could get them down to was $3. I was at a disadvantage because of these things:<\/p>\n