Two vendors smile in the heat, and offer green mangoes with hot sauce. Last night we saw a performer gulp gasoline and blow fire. The word is coming over a static radio criticizing the president for an illegal third term. Plants lining the street shake with growth The Municipal buildings... [Read More]

We have just finished the theory component of operator training in Las Vegas, Honduras. Five weeks of classes Tuesday through Friday. We have covered plant components, water systems, basic math and unit conversions. We’ve taken two field trips. And we’ve been building the flocculator baffles, plate settlers in the sedimentation... [Read More]

We just finished the first week of operator training in Las Vegas and we are driving back to Tegucigalpa, five of us in the white half-ton mitsubishi. In front of me sits German (pronounced Hair-mon), wearing a yellow shirt and a 1/2” haircut. He sports a fantastically round belly. He... [Read More]

Hello friends and family! Here’s my first blog post. It was written in a pickup on the way from Las Vegas, Honduras to Tegucigalpa. I hope life is going well in the States. By the end of today I will have been in Honduras for one week. I flew into... [Read More]