Dec. 20, Sunday

on the road

we had a safe trip

visited Rebeca and her husband Edgardo on the way south

he is a webmaster and his family owns Mario's restaurant and whale watching tours. the palapa restaurant is one of the most beautiful edifices I have ever seen !!!!  and the food was gooooood too.

Rebeca has left the biosphere and will now be a consultant. she charges a fee which is art of the package she puts together which the gvt will cover.  all i can say is,after months of hitting one brick wall after another, is:  I think I hit paydirt. she is my ticket to getting this project from mind to reality. yessssssss !!!!!

after an hour of talk we come up with the following ideas:

i should approach the miramar landfill about donating a liner for our new landfill

i should start the centro de acopio or recycling center right away

we should have a compost pile

part of her project will be to have the guerrero negro man who makes bricks out of cardboard come to                       bocana and train someone in his trade and maybe mauro from BOLA to teach about the glass pieces into sinks business

she wants to work with caring for dogs and i afterwards realized that  she can come to the la bocana environmental day and giver her spiel

she wants me to approach caterpillar and ask for a donation of a non-working tractor or bulldozer or ??? and she can have it fixed at the salt plant

we leave and i feel elated

the drive was uneventful
once in ensenada we go stright to the more expensive hotel since it is where we will eat dinner and we are so tired i beg to pay more and just be where dinner with enrique and eduardo will be.  and the good part ???? the rooms $30 LESS than what we paid last time. why ????  we are later informed that all the hotels have dropped their prices in ensenada...so wonderful...

i tried eduardo and enrique over and over since we were to meet at 7 at this hotel's restaurant....no answer no answer no answer. we go and order. eventually i ask for a phone and the waiter lends me his. no answer but a little while later the waiter comes with HIS phone and tells me the call is for me !!!  HAHAHA !!!  so the gang comes late. we eat and i talk talk talk.  it is all good. i could have shut up a little but i only have this one chance to tell them about everything .......... and there is a lot to tell .,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, but i think next time - i will write is short and sweet and let them talk ...........

we sleep like angels altho i feel like a truck has run over me.  i spent Sunday night wrapping gifts on my bed and the position was stupid and wrong and made my back ache ..