Wendy, Chris and I are sitting here in Roatan, and this is our view. I’d write more, but it’s time to go have another drink…

(Sat 6:21 pm)

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We’ve arrived in Honduras from LAX via El Salvador. The final leg of our journey was delayed, so we’ve been waiting impatiently. After a breakfast of beer and pizza at 9 (2 flights after we started) … talking on skype … figuring out how to use iChat to video conference my office … texting the beautiful Erica in Hong Kong … and just general time-killing activities, it looks like we’ll be headed for Roatan shortly.

Of course, all this follows the unspeakable (and I mean that literally and figuratively) of the knife-edge decision of whether I was going to even make it on this trip. At one point, I was staying, and I pulled my luggage off of the baggage loader… only to have a change of direction, and to put my luggage ON the loader because I was going. (Of course, it was then 2 minutes past the cut-off, and they almost didn’t accept it, nearly sending me BACK to staying here …) But I’m here, I’ve made it, and I’m in good contact with those who needed me in contact. The world still spins.

The guys (in which I’m including Stacie) don’t know it yet, but we’re about to go ziplining in a few minutes… I don’t think I’ve ever done it “in the wild,” so I’m looking forward to it. More later tonight from our resort.

Currently in the throes of planning all the details for the VP of El Salvador … it’s so much crazy detail work. Thank god for Erin, Cindy, the OC Office of Protocol, etc… they’re handling most of it. Friday should be fun, though … private meetings, a luncheon, Disneyland and dinner …

I’ve always been hugely fascinated with the Secret Service. I don’t think it’s so much because of them, though, but because I’ve always been hugely fascinated with the Presidency. I mean, what’s it like to be the most powerful man in your country? What’s day-to-day life like for Read the rest of this entry »

Well, it’s not often that I get to pickup the Vice President of
any country from the airport, but that was my night. Read the rest of this entry »

Sometimes my life is crazy. I just got off of a 15 minute phone call to the Vice President of Honduras. (He’s a nice guy!) Anyway, he’s confirmed he’s coming down for the HeRO Golf Tournament … more later! (By the way, I need to put a quick update on here about Surf Camp … that will come soon, too.)

(Me at the orphanage in Tegucigalpa)

I’m back home safe. I was only gone for 3-1/2 days, but it somehow seems like this crazy time-warp where nothing changed here, and I was gone for but a moment, but somehow I was in Central America for at least 2 weeks, with all the things we experienced in such an intense timeframe. Probably the most impactful, most amazing part of the trip Read the rest of this entry »

Okay … spent all morning with the Vice President’s wife Becky touring the local hospital and discussing her programs, now I’m packing and getting ready to leave. We arrive home around midnight tonight … see you all soon!!

Click “see more” for a couple of pix of the trip! Read the rest of this entry »

Three-and-a-half hours 100 km north of Tegucigalpa, and 25km east … way up in the hills, 15 km down a dirt road, is a little village. In this little village are 100 students, learning for the first time in history how to beat the “weather cycle” — where, when the weather is bad, many people starve and die. And these kids, also for the first time, awake every day to a nutritious breakfast. What amazes me is Read the rest of this entry »