The following is another guest blog from Ed, remembering the good old days of 1950 La Ceiba, Honduras. Oh, my, how times have changed in La Ceiba!Standard Fruit Company (now Dole) provided more entertainment for their cruise passengers by holding a dance ashore in the company mess hall. These 'tourist dances' were usually well attended, both by the gringos and the tourists. This gave us a chance to...

The following guest blog is from Daniel, who was inspired to tell us more about current day La Mosquitia after reading The (real) La Mosquitia. Daniel is a biologist, a birder, and one of my favorite Honduran internet friends. You can find his bird blog at Hondubirding and his new Mutts and Cats blog at Chuchos.La Mosquitia (the Mosquito Coast), Honduras and NicaraguaMy wife works in an education p...

I woke up yesterday morning to no water. Then I flipped the light switch and found no power. Of course, my first thought was that La ENEE got their records mixed up and came back to turn off our electricity again! But the fact that we had no water was a sure sign that the whole colonia was without power. I'm not sure if La Ceiba was without power or not, but it must have been a planned outage as it...

Electricity cost adjustment!Dario Banegas, La Prensa, Honduras"Electrocuted by La ENEE" was a recent La Prensa headline, in which the latest increase in electric bills from the corrupt government-owned La ENEE and the apparent errors by the corrupt billing company, SEMEH, were discussed. Though the May rate increase was approximately 26% (following an increase of 14% in January), many people of sca...

Gas prices, August 2007, La Ceiba, HondurasI took this photo last August to shock you readers with how much we were paying for gas. I never got around to posting it and then gas prices were going up each week so it was outdated information. Prices in Lempiras will give you sticker shock, won't they? These translate to US $2.89 for diesel, $3.34 for regular, and $3.54 for super. Now, look at this:So...