On Tuesday morning, on my way to breakfast, I passed by this nice xeriscape of cacti in front of a vacant lot.
Xenon now lives in a building which also has a large area for team gatherings inside (and where he parks his vehicles). Across the street from his home is another small park, that is only two blocks from our hotel with a park in front of it.
After breakfast, we headed back to La Florida. I continued mixing sand and cement, and then supplying that mix, water and bricks to the people laying bricks in the walls. At lunch, I took a walk to the central square in La Florida. The municipal office and church are at one end of the square.
I passed by some of the homes built from bamboo, which hopefully will be replaced by brick and concrete buildings like those being done by the Fuller Center.
Since they finished the roof on the other building, the teams shifted - and the brick walls continued to grow at the house where I was working.
In the next three photos, as I zoomed out, you can get an idea of just how dry and arid it is in the hills surrounding La Florida. But for the water from the underground spring in the center of town, there would be no town.
On Wednesday, eleven of our team did the same trip to Paracas that we did in 2014; click here to see that trip. The five remaining team members helped mix water, sand and gravel in the Fuller Center's gas powered cement mixer, and then took wheelbarrows of concrete to pour the floor in one half of what we called the roof house (as half our team built the roof on Monday and Tuesday - the other house above we referred to as the brick house because of all the bricks we laid there).
Before heading to the work site, I took a couple of photos of the plants near our hotel; the pole with black bags is where they put out the trash (I assume to try to keep the dogs out of it).
Here is the roof house where we prepared to work.
Here is the back yard of the roof house.
Nancy filled the water buckets, and Eddy, Brian, Al and I worked with Augusto #1 to mix the concrete and pour it to make the floor.
And here is the floor after the concrete was poured and leveled out by Augusto #1.
Once the floors were finished in one half of the house, the five of cleaned tools and the worksite and then returned to Cañete for lunch.
After visiting by boat to the nature preserve at Isla Ballesteros and the Paracas Museum in my 2014 blog post, the eleven travelers had lunch and then returned to Cañete to join the five of us. We all then went to the beach in Cerro Azul. I think Al and I were two of those who went into the ocean, as did Brian and Nancy. Some people wandered the beach, others had a beer on the pier.
We then went for a very nice team dinner at El Piloto Restaurant in San Luis District. And then it was into San Vicente for a visit to La Cabaña Zapata for pisco sours for everyone followed by lessons and demonstrations on making pisco sours.
Once we returned to our hotel, three of us went out for a walk and we passed by this wonderful cake display at a local bakery.
And then it was another night of good rest at Hospadaje Canario Lodge.
Xenon now lives in a building which also has a large area for team gatherings inside (and where he parks his vehicles). Across the street from his home is another small park, that is only two blocks from our hotel with a park in front of it.
After breakfast, we headed back to La Florida. I continued mixing sand and cement, and then supplying that mix, water and bricks to the people laying bricks in the walls. At lunch, I took a walk to the central square in La Florida. The municipal office and church are at one end of the square.
I passed by some of the homes built from bamboo, which hopefully will be replaced by brick and concrete buildings like those being done by the Fuller Center.
Since they finished the roof on the other building, the teams shifted - and the brick walls continued to grow at the house where I was working.
In the next three photos, as I zoomed out, you can get an idea of just how dry and arid it is in the hills surrounding La Florida. But for the water from the underground spring in the center of town, there would be no town.
On Wednesday, eleven of our team did the same trip to Paracas that we did in 2014; click here to see that trip. The five remaining team members helped mix water, sand and gravel in the Fuller Center's gas powered cement mixer, and then took wheelbarrows of concrete to pour the floor in one half of what we called the roof house (as half our team built the roof on Monday and Tuesday - the other house above we referred to as the brick house because of all the bricks we laid there).
Before heading to the work site, I took a couple of photos of the plants near our hotel; the pole with black bags is where they put out the trash (I assume to try to keep the dogs out of it).
Here is the roof house where we prepared to work.
Here is the back yard of the roof house.
Nancy filled the water buckets, and Eddy, Brian, Al and I worked with Augusto #1 to mix the concrete and pour it to make the floor.
And here is the floor after the concrete was poured and leveled out by Augusto #1.
Once the floors were finished in one half of the house, the five of cleaned tools and the worksite and then returned to Cañete for lunch.
After visiting by boat to the nature preserve at Isla Ballesteros and the Paracas Museum in my 2014 blog post, the eleven travelers had lunch and then returned to Cañete to join the five of us. We all then went to the beach in Cerro Azul. I think Al and I were two of those who went into the ocean, as did Brian and Nancy. Some people wandered the beach, others had a beer on the pier.
We then went for a very nice team dinner at El Piloto Restaurant in San Luis District. And then it was into San Vicente for a visit to La Cabaña Zapata for pisco sours for everyone followed by lessons and demonstrations on making pisco sours.
Once we returned to our hotel, three of us went out for a walk and we passed by this wonderful cake display at a local bakery.
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