Saturday--A Long Travel Day

I'm writing this from our comfortable digs in the Green Frog Inn in San Pedro Sula after a long day of travel.
We met at St. John's parking lot at 2:30am to load into two vehicles to drive to the Pittsburgh Airport for our 6am flight.  I should say that SIX of the seven of us gathered at 2:30am while one unnamed individual caught up on his sleep.  I won't say his name to save embarrassment but he's an honorable person with initials of HWW and we are holding him in contempt until he shows up on tomorrow's flight.

While our missing man caused the first adrenaline rush of the day, the next was negotiating a nightmare through the Houston Airport.  Our flight from Pittsburgh arrived a few minutes late so we knew that we would have to rush to make our connecting flight to San Pedro Sula.  We arrived at terminal B and would have to use a bus to get to our gate in terminal E.  As we headed toward the bus we found a huge line of people snaking down a long hallway waiting for the bus.  Attendants told us that our only chance was to exit the terminal and take the train and then to renegotiate through security (and go through the bag inspection and remove shoes, etc all over again) to get to terminal  E.  Sooo, we hustled through the bowels of the airport, boarded the very slow train that was packed and wouldn't start until doors were very clear, suffered through slow stops at terminal C and D and finally arrived at E.  We hustled up two flights of stairs and found a security line that would take us at least  15 minutes past our flight time to get through.  At that point we were pretty sure that we would NOT make it to Honduras today.

Well, we worked our way through the line and found that the flight had been delayed 35 minutes until 9:35am.
We ran as fast as old guys can run and boarded our plane at 9:40 just as they closed the gate.  Whew!!

No time for restroom breaks or breakfast but we did get on the plane!

We then had an uneventful flight to San Pedro Sula.........except that luggage for Dan, Brian and Dave did not make the trip with us!  After filling out the lost luggage forms we walked out into the heat and humidity of Honduras and were met by Rev. Barbara Boghetich and some of her team.  They transported us to our hotel where we were able to relax a bit after a long day.              

In the evening our new friend and driver, Freddie, met us and took us all to Barbara's house for dinner.  We wrapped up about 7:30pm as a few of us were starting to nod.  We'll have no trouble sleeping tonight.    dp