February 8th 2010 – We’re Off

We’ve had breakfast, I’ve packed for an overnight, I’ve scoured my map and I guess I’m ready to go.

I need to go to San Salvador to pick up our ‘student intern’ Alisha.  She’ll be here for a month and a half volunteering in the boy’s school up the street.  But since she is coming in after dark, I won’t drive.  We’ll spend the night at our usual little guest house and then drive up to Berlin tomorrow morning.  And Alfredo (our trusty delegation driver) will make sure we all get where we need to be safely. 

Before we get to Los Pinos though, Sandy and I will drop off Chon (our visitor from Spain) and Blanca to the UCA (University of Central America).  They have some business there. 

I’m worried that I will get us totally lost.   Looking at a map, it really does not look hard to get there.  But I know better. The city is so hard to drive in.  There are so many places you cannot turn left.  And you have to go way out of your way on a myriad of little side streets to get back to a main street.  Sigh.

But from the UCA, it is more direct and with fewer turns.  And it will just be Sandy and me so fewer eyes seeing how badly I get lost!  Haha. 

So we’re off soon.  And we’ll be back tomorrow afternoon (Tuesday).

Wish me luck!!