08/20 Took the day off yesterday and did some shopping. The market set up along one of the streets wasn’t very big but it had some smaller things I’ve been looking for. Wandering around eating ice cream and checking out the stalls was kind of relaxing after my somewhat stressful week. I also discovered a banana that had gotten lost in the bottom of my pannier. I think it got lost some time ago based on the smell. It was a rather nasty mess to clean up but it gave me an opportunity to get rid of some food that had been unused for quite a while (why I buy Spam and never eat it I’ll never know).
The road to Ipala was a dream. There was very little traffic, the road surface was perfect, the hills were almost all a nice grade that required almost no effort to climb and the scenery, especially along the Volcan de Ipala, was incredible. I took some pictures but they turned out bad so I deleted them. The houses alongside the road were kind of unique as well. Many of them had paintings drawn on the outside wall facing the road. The theme was mostly local stuff like the lakes and rivers but some had paintings of cows and horses on them too. The people was amazing too. I think every single person I saw waved or honked.
Rain was threatening so when I got to Ipala I rode around debating if I should keep going. Being able to ride faster than 5 mph for a few hours gets me pretty far pretty fast. 
That would have messed up my plans for the next couple days as far as where I wanted to be for the Honduras border crossing so I stayed put.
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