Rog and Jane's Blog

We arrived at the Grande Tikal Hotel around 2, rested for about 15 minutes & then took off to shop for things only available here and/or...

The last couple days at Clinica Jose were filled with touch up jobs, putting away tools & cleaning up the messes we'd made.  We seem...

The Sister want Hermocillo (their hired hand) how to use their tools and fix things so he usually works with Rog who tries to teach him and ...

Our Job List started out with about ten things but when the Sister saw how capable & hard working Rog is...the list more than doubled.  ...

We took a tuk tuk to a small village nearby, San Juan...a very quiet and interesting place.  We shopped for a few last gifts and Rog gave so...

Dios is the Spanish word for God so it hit me today that Adios must refer to God.  Duh!  All the times I said that and I never thought about...

San Pedro sits on Lake Atitlan, a volcanic crater that is about 20 km E to W and about 900' deep and with steep mountains all around it....

A sad day...I ran out of M & M's...and worst, I lost our camera...somewhere on the last of the 4 chicken buses that it took to get u...

After working on projects for about 5 hours, we devoured a BBQ rib dinner with mashed potatoes & corn prepared by Sister Liz & then ...

Our long drive to and from town gave us a chance to learn more about many things...including the current nun situation in USA:  very few are...

Since we had finished all the jobs we could do, we took off for Quetzaltenango...3 hours drive one way...to get more supplies.  Sister Liz s...

Being around Sister Liz is such a treat!  Since she is my Mom's first cousin, so many of her mannerisms remind me of my mom...even the w...

Before I Sleep  is the book about Dr. Tom Dooley's last two years.   Ironic that it is the book I happen to pick out in San Pedro to rep...

I asked Sister Liz if they would be sending someone to the USA to be trained as a doctor and then return to work here...without hesitation s...

I asked Sister Liz if they would be sending someone to the USA to be trained as a doctor and then return to work here...without hesitation s...

Such amusing stories are shared while we eat meals...Here's one told by Sister Annie:  She was woken in the middle of the night & as...

By  10 a.m.  coffee break, Sister Liz had already seen 10 patients besides checking on on our job...hanging towel racks.  I fixed turkey-ala...

All decisions about what & how to build here always heavily take in consideration the future...when the Sisters hand this whole operatio...

When we came in for breakfast at 7, the Sisters had another surprise for us...since they had not had a big Thanksgiving or Christmas dinner,...

The Sisters live in a very nice home made out of stone--built by some Benediction nuns during the religious persecution years so it is very ...