The Trappings of Civilization have arrived

The container was released from customs as promised on Monday and Mr. Henry Browns truck company brought the container from the port all the way to our house. Now realize they had to stop the rig on the main road and back the trailer with the 20ft container on it down our curvy little road for about 3 blocks. Of course my friends Tyrone and Stephen helped the driver back up the road and just for good measure some random cab driver stopped and yelled his advice for the 15 minutes it took to back the truck up.

I have to hand it to the driver he only knocked down a few really really big (imagine 12 inches or more around) limbs and only one branch bounced up and down on the power lines before it fell to the ground. All of this may sound like poor driving but this semi truck had no power steering only mechanical so like I said pretty good driving.

The whole ordeal was quite the show for our neighbors and about 6 trucks that were blocked on the road and got to watch the new Roatan way of old growth logging the driver invented.

Well once the truck got parked we had a small Army of Honduran guys lined up to carry the things the last 50 yards down the road to our house and up all of our stairs. Luckily for us Tyrone had arranged former concrete block carriers to carry our boxes so these 5 guys unloaded and carried 9 pallets up to our house in less than 45 minutes. I paid them 200 limps (a little over $10) each for this effort. Evidently 200 limps is a days pay for some jobs like chopping lots etc.. Neither Cindy or I carried a box so it was money well spent as far as we were concerned.

After the boxes arrived we quickly unloaded our bigger TV and got that going and started unpacking things. This unpacking process will continue for the week as we have a lot of stuff to fit into this house.

The fun continues...