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Beach Time

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After a long morning, a few long days and a long week, we finally headed to the beach. We arrived at Playa Costa del Sol at around 4:15 pm. We were very ready for some rest and relaxation. The boys had been griping about missing the Badgers game and their complaining paid off, because they got an offer to ride in a car instead of the bus and arrived a lot sooner than the rest of us. Just look at these poor deprived souls. This was the view from the driveway that we pulled into. The beach house is surrounded by coconut trees, and there was a guy climbing to the top and harvesting them for us to eat. This tree is probably fifty feet tall, and he scampered up the side of it with no ropes or safety harnesses of any kind. Here's a close-up, so you can see him in among the fronds. Here's a wide-angle so you can get a better idea for how tall the tree is. You're seeing about half the height of the tree in this photo. There was a pool and a "hot"
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Izalco Clinic

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On Friday we visited a new location, Izalco, for half a day. We were a little nervous because didn't know the lay of the land, and we were only going to get one chance to make it work. On the bright side, it was much closer to our home base of Ateos than Tacachico. Izalco had a slightly different feel to it than many of the other towns we drove through. Brighter and more open, somehow. The clinic was in the middle of town on the church grounds. I was surprised to find another 16th century church ruin here, similar to the one in Caluco, although a few years newer. There were several plaques and memorials around the church grounds referencing some event that had happened in 1932. I looked it up today and discovered that it was a peasant revolt that resulted in the death of 20,000 - 30,000 people. Apparently, the outcome was so severe that it led to a disappearance of native dress and culture throughout the country, for fear of further reprisals. It's kind of interesting
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Portraits from Tacachico

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I've got a lot of nice portraits from Tacachico, so I figured I would make a picture-book post. Enjoy lots of photos and almost no words!
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Tacachico Clinic

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Although I spent most of Thursday afternoon out and about delivering water filters, I still had a chance to capture some action around the mission site and print some photos for people. The setup in Tacachico is a little unique in that they have an actual hospital building. I don't know the details of how or when it was built, but it's pretty new and clean-looking, so it can't be that old. However, it's completely empty. It looks like it's never been used full-time for its intended purpose. Obviously, that makes it a great setup for us, since we can move right in and pretend that we are in a real clinic, instead of something more like a summer camp! The first location the patients are taken to is triage, which is set up in the hospital lobby. After triage, patients move to the waiting area - rows of seats in the main hallway by the registration desk. From the waiting area, patients are taken to see providers. Because of the hospital setup, some provide
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