Sunday we drove
three hours to the mountain town of Olanchito, where the clinic is located.
Fairly rural town of 40,000 but with the surrounding mountains and valley there
is a population of 120,000 altogether. Only about 10-15 roads in town are
paved, so travel, even by car, is slow once you get here. 
We went to the hall that will be our clinic and unpacked the boxes (some sent by us and some left here) to setup the clinic. Our rooms are basically poles that we put together and sheets from the polls. This all took about 3 hours. You can see from the pictures here that we start with a bare room and end up with a clinic. Plus getting all the supplies that go in the rooms organized (syringes, needle, sharps containers, tables, sheets, etc.) to be prepared for the am. Afterwards, we went to an open air restaurant for a good meal and then back to the hotel for a much needed rest.
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