AUTHOR: Nancy TITLE: On the way to Buenos Aires, or Peru, or Chile… DATE: 3/01/2010 11:51:00 AM ----- BODY:
Hi all,
I'm sitting in LAX awaiting a flight that was supposed to go to Buenos Aires, but because of the earthquake in Chile, I guess I'm going to Lima! They can't guarantee anything from there, so it's a bit like hitchhiking...show up and see what shows up.

Before the trip to Guatemala and Honduras is lost, I thought I'd let you know how it all played out.

We started in Antigua and worked quite a bit with Marco Tulio at his factory just outside of San Antonio Aguas Calientes. What an impressive site and how impressive Maco was in showing us his complete business plans. Gerry was delighted to see that Maco understood the accounting issues and the two of them worked on that at some length.

The other issue was that of legal registration of the design and the ownership of it. Frank, Gerry, Bob and I met with attorneys and drafted various documents that now have to be signed and certified in various countries.

Gustavo, Gustavito, Elvira and Luisa came and again we talked about design specifications for the molds, legal registration issues and general factory development issues. In addition, we arranged a dental mission with Jay Lamb as the US dentist, Gustavito as the Salvadoran dentist, and Violet as the Guatemalan dentist. Exciting, especially since we were on the second floor of the municipal building overlooking the first procession of Semana Santa.

Mid-week we traveled with Amilcar in his van to Copan Ruinas. Marco Tulio joined us so that meant time in the car to talk business along the way.

Copan Ruinas was lovely, Don Udo and the other Rotarians were extremely welcoming, so we spent most of our time talking with Don Udo and David about the new factory possibilities. I know the team would love to visit as Copan Ruinas has such interesting surroundings. We're just not sure where/if a factory will be built, but by the end we left it up to the Rotary to figure out the site and the factory owner, but they now have most of their questions answered.

By the end of our stay we had visited the architectural site, learned about the production of noni, met some wonderful people, and visited a natural spa. I bought two fabulous paintings, we overate as usual, and had an incredible journey!

We'll plan a volunteer trip soon, but we want everything in place before we do so.

Keep posted!
Nancy

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