As long as we're someplace other than here, all's well. We arrived in San Pedro Sula, Honduras' second biggest city, eleven and a half hours after departing Leon. We grabbed a taxi to our hotel and got ourselves checked in. So far things were going off without a hitch…which was unusual.

We were going to head out for some dinner when the hotel clerk stopped us, mumbling something about "seguridad". He insisted on putting us in a taxi to the restaurant, so we reluctantly agreed. We got dropped off and walked in, only to realize we were an expensive Argentinian steak house, not what we had requested. But when we questioned about our original destination, we were informed it was next door and closed. We went to leave, and the two armed security guards in the parking lot stepped out as the waiter ran out explaining that it was "muy peligroso" and to please wait inside while they called us a taxi.

We got the taxi to take us to the next Honduran restaurant we had selected from the book, but once again it appeared to be closed; this was starting to feel like a bit of a theme!! Understanding at this point that walking places was considered a bad idea, we got him to drop us at a diner in a hotel. Ola ordered the special- carne res (roasted mystery meat). When it came she exclaimed, "Tongue! What a lovely surprise!" I was very happy with my grilled cheese sandwich.

When we asked the hotel desk to call us a taxi, she looked at the name of our hotel and explained that she hadn't heard of it, and was concerned for our safety. That's when we decided that "early to bed and get out quick" was the best course of action for this place.

On the way back our taxi driver spoke impeccable English. He explained that the city really wasn't dangerous, you just simply needed to take cars everywhere and you wouldn't get attacked. He inquired about our next destination, and we told him we were heading to Copan. He said that was a much better place for us.

It seems that Copan has two claims to fame and so we've come up with its new tourism slogan: Copan, we have ruins and you can walk places!