{"id":100,"date":"2001-06-17T00:50:00","date_gmt":"2001-06-17T00:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mercurystate.wordpress.com\/2001\/06\/17\/372\/"},"modified":"2008-09-17T13:55:48","modified_gmt":"2008-09-17T17:55:48","slug":"372","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/seekingsol.com\/372\/","title":{"rendered":"on her way to the bay islands"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Dear Reader<\/strong>,<\/p>\n<p>By the time you read this, <strong>I\u00b4ll be scrunched in the corner of a hot and dirty chicken bus somewhere in between Guatemala and Honduras<\/strong>. Chapter 4 of &#8220;The Adventures of Travel Merry Sol&#8221; opens at the plumber-crack of dawn (4am) tomorrow, where upon I\u00b4ll be wandering the calles and avenidas of Guatemala City in search of the first of a sequence of busses, shuttles, taxis and boats that will *eventually* land Sol in the Bay Islands of Honduras.<\/p>\n<p>(<strong>Side note<\/strong>: I just found out that they are, right this minute, filming the upcoming series of &#8220;Temptation Island&#8221; on one of the islands I\u00b4m going to. The spy in me is getting all kinds of ideas about utilizing that 16x zoom on my new cam to blow out the results of the show before it airs&#8230;..ahhh&#8230;..<strong>double-O-Sol<\/strong>&#8230;I\u00b4m liking it&#8230;. )<\/p>\n<p><strong>Annnnnnyway.<\/strong> Here\u00b4s the dirty down low: Although the islands are the cheapest place in the world to get dive certification (160 bucks, included 5 days of instruction, multiple fun dives AND hotel), the same 160 bucks will only buy me 10 hours in the Internet Cafe.Yup. <strong>$15 dollars and HOUR.<\/strong> SO&#8230;.unfortunately, <strong>I will not be replying to any e-mails<\/strong> with less than 7.9 on the response-richter scale (for example, my cat dying would be an 8.2). I will, however, be posting pictures in the following album &#8212; so give it a check in a week.<strong> Assuming I make it alive to Utila, there will be pictures there<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<p><a onclick=\"javascript:pageTracker._trackPageview('\/outgoing\/www.imagestation.com\/album\/?id=4292533121');\"  href=\"http:\/\/www.imagestation.com\/album\/?id=4292533121\" target=\"new\">Honduras Photo Album<\/a><\/p>\n<p>I\u00b4ll be blogging too when time and budget permits, of course, but I\u00b4ll be on the road for the next few days, so&#8230;*waves*<\/p>\n<h3>cya in Utila!<\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dear Reader, By the time you read this, I\u00b4ll be scrunched in the corner of a hot and dirty chicken bus somewhere in between Guatemala and Honduras. 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