In spite of making travel plans for Canada, we kept watching the housing market, particularly in Auburn. Finally, a house caught our eye and our pocketbook. After buying the house and emptying the storage unit, we realized how much furniture we needed to fill the new 1600 square feet. So, we watched Marketplace, and garage … Continue reading SOLD

We landed in San Francisco on my birthday, March 30th. After a wonderful time in The City, we headed to the hills where we had rented a house for 3 months, with a month to month lease. The perfect situation for indecisive people. It's a home in a beautiful gated community called Lake of the … Continue reading To stay or not to stay?

So, I came back for it. We arrived late Thursday night, March 29th. It was actually so late that it was the 30th, my birthday. But passport control didn't even wish me a happy birthday. We celebrated by sleeping in late, and then went to the coast for lunch at The Cliff House. We also … Continue reading I left my heart in San Francisco

We got to have one more visit to Lake Yojoa before we left Honduras. Here, Sara and her new employee presented the plan to a school committee. And we trekked up hill once more to try to find the Quetzel. Unfortunately, the guide told us that they had flown a couple of hours walk away … Continue reading Adios, Honduras

Norris, Becky and Sara went to Panama. Norris had been with the military and wanted to show us the canal and make sure I got to see the birds that are so popular there. We went to the canal the first thing in the morning and it paid off with a ship in progress. It … Continue reading Panama

Sara sent us to Costa Rica for a vacation. A break for her, as well. Our first stop was Grecia, a little mountain town that Norris had heard was a popular ex-pat destination. A couple of years ago, we were thinking of moving to Ecuador for 2 years, but decided it was too far from … Continue reading Costa Rica on our own

So Sara could work with fewer interruptions, we got an English speaking taxi driver to take us to a park overlooking the capital city. A statue of Christ is at the top. Norris likes to climb to the top of things and Becky spots the birds. The sprawling city of Tegucigalpa. Look carefully and you'll … Continue reading Another week of work and tourism

The work is rewarding, exhausting, and involved. But, we also get some down days. In La Esperanza, Norris and I spent time on Saturday exploring the town during the teacher training. We all had the whole Sunday for ourselves, and went off to find a waterfall. Driving a bit further out of town, we ate … Continue reading Time off for good behavior

Sightseeing is the least of what we're doing here. Mostly, we're helping Sara with her non-profit organization, the Chispa Project. It involves organizing, labeling, and distributing books to create libraries. http://www.chispaproject.org Sara and her team talk to the parents, teachers and school director to set up a contract for the library. Then Norris gets to … Continue reading Chispa at Work

We spent the first week here with the books.  However, we found time to treat ourselves to a French dinner at a local restaurant.  So delicious! And we found enough free time for a puzzle with friends. But we also had 6 hours of our first Spanish lessons. Our teacher thought we were doing so … Continue reading Life in Tegucigalpa