Busted flat in La Ceiba February 7th

Since our last entry, we spent a couple of nights at the Finca El Eden, a farm, restaurant and hotel owned by a German named Berti. It was near the Pico Bonito National Park. Very nice place, right on a river with some great swimming holes. Then we drove on through pineapple country to La Ceiba, where we found our first American style grocery store in weeks. There we noticed that our trailer was . . . crooked. We drove up a very bumpy road to the Omega river outfitters lodge on the Cangrejal River. On further investigation, we discovered that the leaf springs on one side of the trailer were broken, so this morning I took them off, and took them to the auto suspension guy in La Ceiba, he said he would make some new ones, and we can pick them up tomorrow. I don´t quite believe it will be that easy, but I´m keeping my fingers crossed. There are these jungle companies that do zipline canopy tours over the jungle. It´s a series of cables strung above the trees that you zip down on and end up back where you started. We want to do that, but probably won´t because it costs a lot for 5 people.

We hope to float the river while we´re here, there are some American guides working for the outfitter who have been helpful.

We left the kids alone at the beach, so we´d better go see if they are still there.