San Pedro

Yesterday was pi day; today is the ides of March.

I find myself in San Pedro Sula, Guatemala after an 11-hour bus trip, with just a large day-pack half-full of gifts. Besides being long and unnecessarily air-conditioned, the trip included a truck sprawled across the road on its side, and people in funny outfits collecting scattered chicken cages and gathering escaped chickens.

Today and tomorrow I'm visiting children sponsored by my father and step-mother through Children International. They send money every month for things the children or children's families need, as well as for a general fund for health care, etc. So I'll be meeting them, taking pictures, and seeing a little of what their lives are like.

Not much project news. Ever wrote to say that the Altagracia repeater went down, but came back up after he cleaned some electrical contacts. I think that there's been an organizational mishap with the funding proposal, and a woman and I are both waiting on each other for the other's part of the proposal to be turned in. That should be easy to fix, but it's too bad the process has dragged out into my vacation.

Anyone know anything fun to do in San Pedro Sula?