Mission: Possible

Our last day in Honduras

We’re up and moving a little after 5 a.m. and just before 6, we load up in the cars and start the four-hour drive or so to the San Pedro Sula airport. We are very cautious when allotting the appropriate amount of time to get to the airport. Our flight is departing San Pedro Sula around 12 noon and we wanted to be there by 10 a.m. to make it through customs with time to spare. There is one drawback, however, to getting on the road at such an early hour: no stores are open. The water at the hostel is not potable, and we were all uncomfortably thirsty the majority of the ride to the airport. Yet once we arrived at the airport, most of us made a beeline to the Wendy’s – a nice little way to bookend the trip.

We touched down in Houston a little after 3 p.m. and we all scurried to our gate in order to catch our flight to Seattle. Most of us hurriedly grasped at food items because it would be awhile until our next chance to eat. We landed in Seattle around 8 p.m. and we all said our goodbyes to each other. Most of us stayed with friends and families for a good night’s sleep until the drive back to Spokane in the morning. Waiting for us in Spokane was the beginning of another hectic week of law school life, and most of us longed for a week just to recover from our week in Honduras.

Mission Possible is starting to lay the groundwork for a return trip in 2011.