Travels With Wesley

Had an interesting day. Met up with John Fenley, head driller for the Texas Water Mission. John is an interesting character, a fine guy. We went into Tegucigalpa to check on submersible pumps and tanks for the well to be drilled in Moroceli. Met with a fellow at Aquatech, who is going to send me approximate pricing on a soups to nuts installation for the well. (For those less literary, soup to nuts means beginning to completion.) Looks like a class operation.

On the way to Teguz, we had to stop as usual at the places where the road washed away last August in the flooding.

This is the hotel that washed down the hill, or rather what’s left of it.

They are tearing out part of the mountain to widen what is left of the road. Wonder what they are going to do when that washes out?

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From Teguz, we returned to Zamorano picked up my car and headed for Danli. On the way we stopped at Moroceli so John could see the location for drilling later this month. When we arrived, the guys were hard at work installing the electrical wiring in the building. Really good to see the work starting on the renovations.

We then went on to Danli where I met Louis Espinal, a fellow Rotarian who is quite influential in Danli, his wife being a congress woman in the National Assembly. Louis will be very helpful here.

Changing the subject slightly, I am in the small towns here day and night, and you always see the kids running around free as a bird, unattended, unsupervised. We can’t let our kids out of our sight for fear of something horrible happening to them. The Hondurans don’t have the fear. Not being very bright, I can only assume that the difference is our sick culture. A topic for another forum, or blog.

Three photos which show how pretty the Honduras countryside is, particularly during the rainy season.