Frijole days of obligation 2005

About dawn tomorrow we fly out of Milwaukee for our fifth time on our parish mission trip. A change of planes and a couple hours by bus on the Pan-American highway, and we'll be at Guadalupe Homes (Los Hogares de Santa Maria de Guadalupe), an orphanage in Santa Apolonia, Guatemala.

We can't drink the local water, assuming it's running, but the orphanage does have internet access. It's one of those National Geographic "Guatemala, Land of Contrasts" things, like seeing a peasant walking a donkey loaded with firewood past the cell phone tower in the middle of the village. If I can't post, you can get the idea from my accounts of some of the prior trips:
May 11th through May 23rd 2004;
June 10th through June 18th 2003; and
July 5th through July 13th 2002.