Well the final day has come, and it is here way too soon. I’m
not ready to leave this place, but I suppose the end of vacations always come
too soon. I woke up early today to finish packing, headed down to the dive shop
to say goodbye to everyone and grab breakfast. Said my goodbyes, had breakfast
and headed back to the room to wrap everything up. God everything packed and
ready to go, and found a cab to pick me up at 10:30am. Headed to the airport,
and began the process of travelling home. The airport in Roatan is ridiculous.
I went through immigration and security – where they completely pat just about
everybody down. After getting through there and waiting it was finally time to
get ready to board. Before boarding, they called about 6-7 people on the
loudspeaker to go to the gate – turns out they were being brought into a
private room to be searched yet again – not sure exactly what kind of search
happened in those rooms, but the people didn’t look too pleased upon returning.
After that, they setup another search checkpoint – everybodys carry on bags
were now being completely searched through as we went through the boarding
gate. Ridiculous. Oh well, got onto the plane and discovered that I had the
entire row of seats to myself – that was awesome. In fact, both flights I was
sitting in a row by myself, so that made the travelling okay. I finally made it
to my door at home at about 1:50am – long day.
It has been such an amazing time in Roatan. I can not wait
to return to this marvelous little place. By far out of everywhere I have been,
I felt the most connected to Roatan. The people here are amazing, it is safe,
it doesn’t feel extremely touristy (like every single all-inclusive resort), oh
and the food here? AWESOME. I am really going to miss all the seafood and how
cheap everything was. I can’t believe I was able to eat so many different
things and experience so much while I was down here. I have learned so much
while I was down here, about life, people, attitude and basically everything. A
shout out to all the people I met while I was down here: Sara, Melissa,
Brittaney, Jamie, Kevin, Lance, Edmund, Giles, Annika, Allan, Mel, Ruth, Uva,
Dorte, Paul, Ken, Joe, Wendy, Amanda, Sam, John, Bettany, Hendrik, Artley and
everybody else!
See you next year!
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