Car Transaction the Honduran Way - One Female Foreigner's Perspective
God found it fit that a foreigner like me should wait at least 16 months to buy a car. A big reason was that I did not have any funds for a car but I also knew that God wanted me to experience the local bus and taxi rides. Needless to say, they were frustrating times when a reliable taxi driver would not or could not answer my call, or answered it too late. It was also frustrating when I had to wait in the really hot sun for a bus. After awhile, I got used to this way of travel. I jumped into taxis when I was warned not to do that; I realised too late that my taxi driver had a scar on his face and this meant that I should not have got THAT taxi; and then, there was the 4am bus ride from Gracias, Lempira where I was the only woman in the mini-bus for a good hour before I saw another woman. And after 16 months in Honduras, I finally searched for a car. I would spend 30 minutes a day looking at various websites. But my most trusted Honduran co...