Honduras

Since we are planning a move to this Central American country, I thought I should do a little research. Having never visited Honduras and given my tendency not to know much about other countries until I actually visit them, I am quite ignorant of all things Honduran. My pre-research knowledge consisted the following facts:


1. Honduras is in Central America just south of Guatemala, bordering the Caribbean Sea to the east. 

2. The capital of Honduras is Tegucigalpa (thanks to my 10th grade Spanish teacher). 

That is about it.

Now my post-initial-surface-research knowledge consists of the following additional facts:

3. Honduras is one of the many Central American nations abused by the US government for commercial purposes in the past;

4. Honduras recently 'impeached' their president in June of last year - a move which consisted of bundling him up in the middle of the night in his pajamas and giving him a military escort to the airport which dropped him off in Costa Rica leading to a host of both peaceful and not-so-peaceful demonstrations on either side of the issue (an event that I might have heard about if I had been keeping up with US news, but that I somehow, ashamedly, missed) apparently because he was trying to force a "vote" to amend the constitution to let him rule indefinitely (makes sense to me that they would want to get rid of him...);

5. Honduras has one of the lowest costs of living in Central America - even lower than Vietnam - which is also related to a high incidence of poverty;

6. People who have traveled to Honduras rave about the country's beauty and the hospitality of its people.

Obviously I have a lot more to learn, but I feel that I know a little bit more now than I did last week and both Steven and I are looking forward to getting to know this new part of the world over the next few weeks, months and years ahead. Hopefully you'll be interested in learning along with us! :)