Happy new year

The trip so far: Basilia and I left Arcata on December 13, spent a couple days visiting with my family in the East Bay, then flew to El Salvador on Dec. 16. Our friends Mirna and Mercy, two sisters from the Burgos family who once lived in Guajiquiro (Basilia's home town in Honduras), came to pick us up at the airport. We spent a couple days getting settled in with help from the Burgos family and our friend Beatriz (a Fulbright scholar at Humboldt State last year), and I met a couple of times with my counterparts from the Universidad Don Bosco, then we headed for Honduras by bus to spend Christmas and New Year with Basilia's family. We had a great time, eating, hiking, dancing, seeing old friends. Probably the last really cool weather we'll feel for awhile. Yesterday we got back to our apartment in Antiguo Cuscatlán. Tomorrow is officially the first day of my grant work period.

Guajiquiro cloud forest