I made it all the way to Copan today. It was much longer than I anticipated, maybe 350 miles. There’s no freeway that goes straight across the country so you’ve got to go Northwest all the way to the top and then Southwest back down to where Copan and the Guatemalan border is. The drive was good but very tiring. It was mostly sunny but I got some rain through the mountains. The last 30 minutes were in the dark, for about 50 miles to Copan Ruins there’s nothing to see, it’s all just mountain roads and pastures. The city itself is very hilly with the added bonus of cobblestones everywhere.

At one point along the drive I stopped at a high point in the mountains with a view and a horse and donkey who were hanging out together and eating grass. A family drove up and I talked with them a little bit and gave the dad a card, he liked my motorcycle.

In Tegucigalpa I fueled up and a cop came over to look at my bike; he tried on my helmet and gloves unsuccesfully too. I took a picture of him with the bike. I’ll try getting pictures within the next day or two.