the road already traveled

comparison time:

Zelaya is to come back through Nicaragua...I was just there and came back through a very similar journey.

First, he's coming from Managua (the capital), thats where my bus dropped me off. I shared a cab with some quebequios and got dropped off at a random bus station. ZERO busses to honduras. But, one bus to ocotal, about 15 miles past esteli.
Zelaya has a jeep. Which he gets to drive. I am jealous.
Of course, he spends the night in esteli, a more touristy and nice town with a hotel that might be 2.5 stars. He's accompanied by the venezuelan foreign minister, press, his wife and daughters.
I got off the bus and walked the wrong way down the street. Asked some people where the closest hotel was and they asked me if i saw the one that was literally about 15 feet from where i got off the bus. I ended being accompanied by a random korean guy with ridiculously long hair who had been traveling around for about a year or two in central america, and the weird brothers who ran the hotel. As for my wife and daughters? I had a bottle of the finest nicaraguan rum, flor de caña, lite...yikes. It was the cheapest bottle...and the only bottle ironically enough, that i could find.
Zelaya is gonna pass through the town of Las Manos...or "The Hands." When I went there i got lectured by some guy about how i was just traveling and that the central americans were smart for putting their immigration offices together. he told me he hoped that i had my 7 dollars ready to pay to enter into honduras again. that is until i showed him my fancy little card that says i live in honduras, and told him that i was smarter than the central americans because i didnt have to pay. i did, however, have to lose 5% of my cash when changing from nica$ to hondu$, but that was expected.
on a side note, i didnt have to pay when i changed my money from hondu$ to nica$ because i was rollin with the ingeniero who had passed through this checkpoint twice a month for the past 20 some'odd years
the ousted president will likely have a much different experience in The Hands. Most likely he won't be too preoccupied about changing his money and finding his next ride to Danli, as i'm pretty sure the guy hassling him may have a bunch of guys behind him with big scary guns.
or
he could find friends there who give him a salute and welcome him back with the protection of said guys with big scary guns.
whatever he does, he's a friggin copycat, and i dont appreciate it...that is unless i get some royalties when he gets his book and movie deals!