18 Jul No Rooms in the Honduran Inn

Every year for the past five years, Global Ministries has sponsored a medical team in Honduras. I’ve been part of each team as one of the support workers. This year’s trip, June 20-28, was phenomenal. Everybody gelled. We conducted clinics in five locations, and saw a total of 1945 patients.

The last clinic was in the town of La Flecha. We planned to stay overnight there, stay in San Pedro Sula the next night, and fly out on Saturday. But then we heard about a national strike scheduled to hit the country Friday morning.

Transportation workers–taxis, buses, truck drivers–were protesting the high cost of gasoline and government taxes on gas. The strike would start at 6 a.m. on Friday. This raised doubts about our ability to even get to San Pedro Sula. So we decided to try to beat the strike.

We drove from La Flecha for two-and-a-half hours, and arrived at the hotel in San Pedro Sula just after midnight. We had rooms reserved there for Friday night, but they had nothing available for Thursday night. Although there were no rooms in the inn, they did make room for us. They said we could sleep on the floor of the exercise room and lobby.

So that’s how we spent the rest of the night. I slept on a sofa in the lobby, using a sofa pillow. As people arrived to check in, I was right there.

The next night we slept in the rooms previously reserved. And Saturday morning, we flew home.