Hidden waterfall hike! Laura and I went for a hike in the Podocarpus national park today. We hitchhiked to Malacatos,walked for a bit and then got another ride to Vilcabamba. We never got great directions on exactly how to get to the park, and we ended up going down at marked trail with a nice tourists sign, walked for about a half kilometer and met a man who told us we were not going the right way. We made it back out to the road and ended up getting another ri...

Beauty sunset!

Beautiful location to volunteer! The foundation is out about 1500 m above sea level which makes for the almost perfect climate! There is a cattle road that goes up the top of the hill behind the house and I took the dog for a walk up there a few times.

Building the garden! They want to have a organic vegetable garden and be going there vegetables as soon as possible so getting this started was priority! Getting away from taking paint off the windows was also nice!

Taking paint off windows..... Fun fun...... The building used to be sort of an old folks home, which was abandoned for about two years! Needless to say there is a lot of work that needs to be done. For some reason they painted the windows from the bottom about a third of the way up with white paint so you can see outside or into the other rooms, which are also separated by windows. Our job was to take the paint off the windows using a pretty harsh paint remover ...