Thanks for everyone's input. And I'm just going to build upon your advice, Squat, in case anyone looks up this thread in the future: As a visitor it's hard to get a ride w/"someone you know", so you can always make friends to go out w/at Edit's place & hang out/come home w/them, ask Edit or someone else for the name of a concho driver they trust who you can arrange to have meet you at FM to go out/pick you up at the end of the night, and -- trusting your instincts when meeting new people, especially those who you plan to have transport you, is important. Especially outside of discos, there's plenty of conchos to choose between, so I'm always sure to choose my driver, not just wait to be chosen by who most wants to take me home!
Also, motorcycles were designed to transport 1 or 2 people, not 3. Especially on the unpaved, dark roads of La Ceiba, that's not safe. That was always my complaint to the "chivalrous" guys who wanted to take the concho w/me to escort me home (and clearly hoped to stay the night). 'Sides, I can take care of myself just fine & don't need to end the night by having to repeatedly tell someone to get back on the moto and go home!
Oh, and Middlemarie, thanks for the reminder about remembering where you 'live'. I, um, quite frequently had very patient conchistas turning around on that dead-end road a block away from Edit's cuz I never could get it quite right!
Oh, and if you want to avoid the whole thing: Edit rents a moto that you could just take yourself and not worry about it. I really dislike motorcycles though (can you tell?
), so that's not an option for me.
Thanks again!