16 June 2008

Honduras Day 3: To the hills








Sunday 1 June
We arrived in Tegucigalpa Saturday evening and stayed at Villa Gracia, the hostel run by Heifer for missions and training groups. We stayed up and repacked the crates and were able to eliminate two. Now we only have to cart 7 up the mountain!

From Tegucigalpa back up to Siguatapeque about 2 hrs, then 2 more hours heading west into the mountains to La Esperanza. After checking into the hotel we headed up the dirt highway north of the city. All of the villages where we will hold clinics are on this road. The Agricultural Cooperative that invited us has members in communities all along the road, as well as in La Esperanza.

I should specify that its not A road. its THE Road. We were supposed to go a few miles further to El Rosario (at the end of The Road) but the last stretch was impassable with mud


[that there nearly sank us -- we had to get out of Tim's jeep so he could get back to navigable road surface]


so we backed up to what would have been our second stop, San Nicolas...






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