Luggage. We don't need no stinking luggage. We're even learning how to do without deodorant. That stuff is highly overrated. What have we learned from this? Carry on, Carry on, Carry on!

Next trip we're each bringing a small knapsack with a couple of changes of clothes, buying disposable tools and finding a mountain stream to do our laundry.

But, let's get back to our mission. We had a great day in the EcoStove arena. After a nice home cooked Honduran breakfast that Roger treated us to, we headed up to Jayacayenne (Remember? Hot pepper!) for our first day of stove building. Our first order of business was to meet our supplier and pick up materials for three stoves.


Then, we were off to the site of house numero uno to see how it is done. We watched and documented the whole process as our soon-to-be teacher and his helper built a stove.


Then we moved on to numero dos where we got our hands a little bit dirty.

We were surprised and gratified by a gift we recieved from the Jayacayenne community. We'll give you an up-close view of this beautiful carving when we get back home. We're going to make sure we don't pack it in checked luggage.

We decided during the course of the day to save one stove kit for construction at San Juan Arriba, so we stopped at two in Jayacayenne. We head back to Arriba tomorrow where we plan to do some wiring and to do our first Parrots-only stove construction.