Rog and Jane's Blog

Last couple days have been Belizian, in other words, plans change often and there is lots of waiting for the next thing to happen.  Example:...

We are surrounded by Mayan ruins here.  A once great and powerful nation with a greater population than what is currently here in Belize.  D...

Gail Girbach sent garden seeds with us so today we set out to help plant three gardens--we were taken to a man who had some tools & he a...

We met four shining stars:  all young girls so eager to gobble up all of our books and all the math problems we could provide.  After a long...

Primitive is the only word I can think of to describe our classroom today where we worked with about 15 kids ranging from pre K  to 15 plus ...

Staying in one spot for a time gives a chance for the locals to open up and talk to us more.  Doris, owner of our hotel, visits often.  She ...

By  9 a.m.  we were headed back to the Omega Church stopping to let kids hop into the back of the pick up--until Emmanuel felt his bulging, ...

The sun came out just before our ship headed back to Belize City where we caught a cab for the bus station and headed for San Ignacio.  The ...

 I love meeting new people. A few days ago we met a couple from Iceland and learned much about their country.  Leif Erickson discovered it a...

Just letting you know we made it to San Ignacio....all's well.  

Hi All, Way back in May, we planted the seed...an email to Sister Liz (my Mom's 84 yr old 1st cousin) asking if we could come t...

Well, we'll be off again starting Jan 7...first to Belize & then to Guatemala.  If you'd rather not have all our blog writings ...

Roger's Summary Ecuador…Beautiful, Green, Friendly. Andes, Amazon, Coast, Galapagos and High Mountain Valleys. As we have found in...

We're home! Home, sweet, home!!! So this is the last update... at least until next year! We still need to write our summaries. Tha...

Galapagos Imagine waking up each day and finding yourself on a different planet...seeing Genesis 1 happening before your very eyes...God ...

Ethnic Clothing If you elimanate the really large cities, about 50 % of the adults we see are wearing some ethnic clothing which is quite a...

Top of the World Our bus trip to Guaranda took us within 5 km of Mt.Chimborazo... an inactive volcano which is the furthest point from the ...

Moving on to Riobamba Got outta Quito before 8 and headed to Riobamba. It sits in the high valley between the Andes. Most of the women he...

Plastic Bottle Uses Here we ways we have seen plastic bottles used: Christmas trees Christmas ornaments lamp shades made into a barrel ...

Bus to Pedernales then Santa Domingo We made up some peanut butter sandwiches and drank on more pineapple juice then started for our bus to...