28 Jan 2009

Today was busy. Spent the morning looking at trucks to send to Haiti then spent the afternoon on inventory and supplies for a shipment tomorrow.

Interesting event: Two Americans stopped by. One has a house near San Pedro that he has opened up to Haitian that are recovering from injuries, but cannot stay in the hospitals here because of capacity issues. They are funding the operation out of their own pockets so they asked if we could help. We loaded up two vans with supplies such as hygiene kits, newborn kits and first aid kits. They had been to Haiti today with a group of doctors that had flown into the Dominican Republic for a day trip to Haiti then a vacation in the Dominican. This gentleman that took them was not impressed with the sightseeing doctors. He is going to e-mail me some pictures tonight, so there will be something to see tomorrow. Thanks to all those who have donated time and materials for the hygiene kits.

A note about driving in the Dominican Republic. Three lanes means up to four cars abreat unless at a traffic light then it can be up to 6 depending on the size of the vehicles and the condition of the shoulder. The best roads do not have lines painted--fewer restrictions on where the vehicles have to be in relation to one another.

Also, I took a picture of a three car left turn. I messed up today, I was in the lead or upstream position and was not aggressive enough at cutting off the on-coming traffic.

Finally, for all you cold weather folk, I took a picture of the Caribean Sea (ok, that is the second word that I tried to use but was unsure of the spelling, if Mrs. Stewart the english teacher wasn't reading this I wouldn 't worry about it--where is the spell check?). Sorry, there just happens to be a tractor in the picture.