Moon Handbooks Honduras

Chris Humphrey began traveling at the tender age of five, when he ventured across town to a friend's grandmother's house. On a family vacation in Greece a few years later, he wandered off through the streets of Athens, lost but happily munching coconut macaroons, until he found his hotel. When he took a year off from college to backpack through Africa and the Middle East, his parents saw the writing on the wall and gave up all efforts to worry about him. Chris was first waylaid by Honduras in 1990 while backpacking through Latin America. Sitting on a dock in La Ceiba looking to catch a tramp freighter to La Mosquitia and on to Nicaragua, he was instead convinced by a couple of fellow backpackers to take the boat out to Utila, in the Honduran Bay Islands. After conversing with the congenitally good-natured islanders about fishing, baseball, and iguanas, he found that a one-day detour quickly turned into two weeks. The soporific town of Trujillo followed, where after doing very little but getting a criminally good tan, Chris finally shook off the inertia and continued southward. But before making it to the Nicaraguan border, he found himself spending several days riding in the back of pickup trucks and hiking around the hillsides of Olancho, drinking strong cups of coffee, and talking about the weather with hospitable-if rather tough-looking-cowboys. Returning to the United States and finally graduating from college, Chris unsuccessfully tried his hand at journalism before throwing everything into a VW van and moving to Mexico City in 1994. There, he first worked as an editor with the English-language daily, The News, and later as a freelance reporter with whoever designed to buy his stories, including the San Francisco Chronicle, the Houston Chronicle, Outside Magazine, and Latin Finance. In 1997, he was offered the chance to write the first edition of Moon Handbooks Honduras, and fondly remembering the unexpected pleasures of his previous jaunt, he jumped at the chance. Chris also coauthors Moon Handbooks Mexico City (2nd edition, 2002) with Joe Cummings. These days, Chris divides his time between Washington D.C., Mexico City, and Liechtenstein-this last the home not of his secret bank account, but of his fine young son, Nicolas.Humphrey, Christopher is the author of 'Moon Handbooks Honduras', published 2003 under ISBN 9781566915120 and ISBN 1566915120.