Visit to Ixtagapa

We visited our first candidate site after lunch (which was at 2). It's the village of Ixtagapa ('x' pronounced like 'sh' for those with poor Spanish like me) which is about 15 minutes north on highway 280 back towards Veracruz.

Pedro, our sponsor, first proposed his side yard, then we discussed his front porch (more room, less traffic.) He then proposed the public building at the top of the hill which might become a clinic for a training location and we walked up to look at it. As you can see, the system water tower is right behind it, so this becomes a very ideal location. Pedro admitted that he can't commit the site, it would be a committment by the community, they might very well approve it.





Asking more questions, it turns out the source of the water is a 90+ meter deep well with a submirsable pump in it. The well is another 200 meters (more or less) further on the road we walked to get here. That photo is shown below.



The water was off when we were there, so we'll have to make another trip to get samples. That will be either Monday evening or Tuesday morning.

Dinner tonight at 7:30 (early, but we're pretty tired from the short night last night.)