Honduras or Bust.

Our Week 1 Mission Team arrived safely in Tela, Honduras this afternoon around 3pm local time. We have already sorted a number of the supplies for the coming week and the following medical week. The excitement is building as we go to be with our Honduran friends and members of our partner church, Espiritu Santo, here in Tela.

We left Montgomery around 4:00 this morning, which is always hard. The early wake up was made easier by the promise of our final destination.

I hardly slept a wink on the entire trip down. I always find it hard to sleep on airplanes and once we landed in San Pedro Sula today, the excitement pushed me through to this afternoon.

As we drove down the Honduran highway from San Pedro Sula to Tela (about a 2 hour drive), I couldn't help but people watch. The people here are always moving. On bicycles, motorcycles, cars, pickups, or by foot. There's always somewhere to be and something that has to get done for these people.

The countryside is beautiful. Looking to one side of the highway you see banana and plantain groves as far as the eye can see, and on the other side of the highway you have mountains. The mountains are lush with vegetation of one sort or another.

On the ride into Tela, was overcome by a lot of feelings. One of the stronger feelings was that I feel at home, especially here in Tela!

***Side Story***
While on the ride from San Pedro Sula to Tela, we got stuck behind a pick-up truck carrying two teenage boys in the truck bed. There wasn't anything really that stood out about one of the boys, but the other... I noticed something very familiar. He was wearing an Alabama cap (Script A on the front, "BAMA" on the back). Roll Tide from Tela!