At long last, a real day off! Our friends, Tracy and Warren came to collect us after a long long day! Tracy grew up in Nutley, the town right next to Montclair. Warren is Guyanese. They moved to Guyana a little over a year ago. They have an amazing place up on the highway called pandama retreat.(click to see their website). Tracy is an incredible artist and has more energy than the "Ever Ready Bunny". Just recently, she was elected the new president of the Guyana Arts and Crafts Producers Association. She and Warren also produce the most delicious wine made from local fruits. When we were here last year, they had just begun to make their wine. Now it is in full production and being sold in all the local stores and served at the best hotels! We tease them about remembering us, once they are BIG BIG BIG, because it's coming, no doubt about it!!
Our first stop was at the local Brazilian restaurant for a cold cold beer...
Then it was off to their home for a lovely evening together of talk, wine and friendship. In the morning we woke up in our cabin to the quiet...
It was so beautiful...
Taking a day off to relax and recharge is a very good lesson to learn. Because we will be living on site at Karanambu, we will really be working 24 hours a day. We must remember to make time for ourselves...to be together and recharge.
The news yesterday was that the roads in the interior are washed out and water is high. Transportation is impossible. The big bus has stopped running and the trucks can't get through. From Georgetown to Iwokrama the road is difficult, but possible, but from Iwokrama to Annai and on to Lethem, there are two very bad stretches where it is impossible to get through at all. Gasoline is being rationed in Lethem and people are running out of supplies because the trucks can't get through. Colin at Rockview Lodge in Annai, wrote yesterday that they are running out of cooking gas and will be using firewood until things improve. No sense in worrying about it until we get there! We are flying in this morning. Generally, you are only allowed to carry 25lbs with you, but we booked 200lbs in overweight so that we can take our suitcases. Salvador also has 4 bougainvillea plants to bring in AND a water gage to monitor the rain fall. So we will have to see what they will allow in the small plane. Once we land at the big airstrip, which is 3 1/2 miles away from Karanambu Lodge, they will pick us up and bring us in by boat!
SO OUR NEXT POST WILL BE FROM KARANAMBU!!!
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