Closed for Christmas

Seasons greetings

I wish you and yoru family an extremely exciting Merry Christmas and a fabulous Happy New Year.

I will be closing down the blog for the remainder of the year and start it up again early next year when I travel to Las Vegas.

Take care and be wonderful to everyone you meet.

Peace, prosperity and understanding

Dickon

Lloyds Bank Misery

I have a bus going to the Honduras capitall Tegucigalpa tomorrow at 5:30am local time, and then after a 4 hour ride I had planned to take a bus down to San Salvador, but if the money isnt there then I will be forced to take a flight back home and sort this out, I just can't let it go any longer.

My wifi doesnt work, my cellphone doesnt work, they want to renew one of my credit cards, I cant access any of my banks or credit cards online or via phone and now with this Lloyds fuss over charging me and stealing over 3,000 pounds of my much needed funds its just one financial crisis too many.

Either I spend 800 pounds, which I don't have spare, and cause merry hell when I get back or ask some one to go through all my stuff at my sisters, find all my other credit cards and call them pretending to me, reset all the telephone banking codes and then transfer funds from them cards to ones I can use, then wait a few more days while someone posts over a few credit cards to my hotel when I should be able to carry on, albeit minus a few cities.

At least if I were in Europe I could hop on a cheap flight and be back again in less than a day, but out here the flight across will be at least 8 hours each way and then I have to get to my branch and kick up enough fuss til they give in or I cancel all my accounts with them.

I thought in this modern technological age things were suppose to be easier, but still in the end the only thing I can do is turn up face to face and scream and shout til something gets done ... some progress.

I can't believe that with all the preparations and arrangements that I made something as mindless and petty as my bank refusing to transfer money between two of my accounts - that the same bank and branch holds - will be the straw that breaks my RTW trip's back - and before I even got half way through as well.

Argh!

Enough of rain

Ok

So now I have had enough of this poxy rain and I am officially putting in a request to get some proper day after day of sun please.

I am few up of Trench foot, photos that look grey and gloomy, having to change socks and shoes twice a day, having to get my laundry done twice a week cos so much of it is wet, having to watch endless movies cos everything else costs money and you cant leave the hotel or hostel cos of the rain and I don't even have many friends that are prepared to meet me that I can go visit to break the boredom and strengthen the friendship.

I have dreamed of this trip for years, having saved for months and made many sacrifices and its so bloody unfair that the fucking
weather is killing it and making me miss so much that everyone else who has been travelling that I met have been able to enjoy.

I did not leave a house, a family, a job and all my friends to sit in a hostel reception surrounded by strangers for weeks on end watching whatever movies AXN decide to show in English that day.

I've had enough of rain, I've had enough of trying to speak Spanish without lessons, I've had enough of mud slides that delay my bus for over two hours, I've had enough of lugging a 10 kilo rucksack from pillar to post and I've had enough of meals that defy recognition.

If I wanted all this I would have joined the army, at least they get paid and when the stress gets too much they are allowed to blow shit up, all I get is another letter from my bank saying that they are charging me 20 pounds a day for their cockups.

Enough is enough is enough, and if things don't change pretty soon then I am going to skip cities, fly to Cancun for Chichen Itza then directly on to Australia and save about a month off my trip and escape this horrible depressing weather.

Dead WiFi Dongle

I have a few posts to come up, and they are all typed but until I get a new WiFi dongle I cannot send them from my computer.

My main problem however is my bank, lloyds, who seem to be doing their best to screw me over, charging me for things they should not, then charging me overdraft interest and charges when i should have over 1,000 in my account.

It is a nightmare and all of their own making!