Side note to last blog

An addition to my latest blog (see below)…I realized that I should explain better what “community” in the mountains of Honduras means. Normally, when we think of a small town or a community we think of a cluster of houses more or less close to each other. Here a “community” (aldea) usually consists of houses scattered along a road or trail. Rarely are two houses right next to each other. In the community we visited last week, there are about 40 houses included in the community but if you drive along the dirt road that hugs the mountainside, you might actually only see 10 of those houses. Most are either up or down from the road, hidden among the trees or coffee plants (about 8 feet when they’re mature). This definitely makes doing house-to-house visits more difficult and more of a workout!