By Jeanne Jacoby Smith, McPherson, KS
Previously published in The McPherson Sentinel, McPherson, KS, Dec. 2009
For the next several days, McPherson resident Jeanne Smith will share her experience with PET-Kansas to deliver Personal Energy Transportation wheelchairs (PETs) to Honduras in April 2009. Kirby and Christine Goering from Moundridge, Kansas, operate the nonprofit charity.
DAY 1: For me, Christmas came early, in April, this year.[Read DAY1]
DAY 2: After our rendezvous with the Pacific last night, we left Tegucigalpa and traveled in darkness to Choluteca, the fifth largest city in Honduras. [Read DAY2]
DAY 3: As we left Choluteca, we circumambulated the Sierras de Agalta.[Read DAY3]
DAY 4: As I relaxed by our wood stove during the snowstorm last week, I “re-membered” Christmas as it happened to me when I traveled with PET-Kansas’ to Honduras this year. [Read DAY4]
DAY 5: On Sunday evening our group from PET-Kansas left Santa Lucia with plans to deliver Personal Energy Transportation wheelchairs, or PETs, in Siguetepeque.[Read DAY5]
DAY 6: We were tired, all of us, this last day. I contemplated our journey of one long week.[Read DAY6]
DAY 7: We arrived in Tegucigalpa with one day to go, tired but excited as we anticipated our journey home.[Read DAY7]