Oil and Water Project

This is a link to some of our latest exploits in the media!

www.laprensagrafica.com\multimedia

At our demonstration in San Salvador, we met up with one of the only Salvadorean raft guides in the country.  Lucky for us, he had some great beta for us.  We did this river because of its close proximity to the school we were visiting in Santa Ana.

It was fun playboating, scenery and mellow whitewater.

Getting to and from the river always seems to be a bit of a mission since we can’t take Baby off roadin’.

We were invited to visit this school here in Santa Ana, El Salvador. An American woman came to the area a while back and started APROSAR, in an effort to provide better health care in El Salvador. It has led to several projects including the barefoot angels. This school is sponsored by international volunteers to provide these kids with a better education. Our visit was very well recieved by the students and faculty. It was among our top 3 favorite school visits to date.

We started with a presentation to the younger kids, which ended to be more of a motivational speech then anything. We really try to get the kids interested with our humor before moving onto the more serious stuff.

With the older kids, we played some latin music and we all danced. We replaced the words of Demme mas Gasolina (give me more gasoline) to No Necicitamos Gasolina (We dont need gasoline).

We joined them for recess afterwards and had a blast. All the kids got on top of the rig and loved it.

Seth started teaching them all how to skateboard.

We had a heck of a time finding the place (the local police had to escort us there in our vehicle). But we are sure glad we made it. These are memories that will never go away!

We had a press conference in front of the Mulit Plaza in San Salvador, El Salvador in conjuction with the El Salvadorean governement. A special thanks to Geoff Shadrack, the Minister of Economics in the Salvadoren US embassy for reading our article in Outside Magazine and helping to coordinate our visit. Also, a special thanks to Edgar Escalante who works with in the Economics Department as well.

We were hosted by the El Salvador Minister of Environment who sincerely embraced the idea of replacing a portion of the 900 million dollars they spend per year on imported oil with home grown biofuels.

We were litterally swarmed by every facet of media imaginable eager to hear about the project and what we are up to. We were on every TV channel that night and every newspaper the next day.

It was the most on the spot we have ever been with our spanish skills, but we managed to pull through.

The Radiator overheated, and Seth walked up to a village to try and fill up some water bottles.  Out of nowhere a team of savage beasts attacked him.  He was able to fend most of them off with two empty waterbottles, but Old Red got the better of him.

He ended with a coke can sized bite on his leg!!!

The doctors tried to detain him for two weeks to get daily injections because we had no idea about the street dog that bit him.  We decided to go track down the owner of the dog and found it that is had its shots.  We haven´t noticed any foaming at the mouth just yet, but will keep you posted.

We spent 5 days hanging on Playa El Tunco outside La Libertad, 30 minutes from San Salvador.  When people talk about great surfing in El Salvador this is what they mean.  We set the rig up right in front of three surf breaks, and attracted mobs of people over the rig.

I took the two photos below laying in my hammock on top of the rig!

This was  a beach break right in front of the rig. Tyler would go out front and practice his new trick, using the curl of the wave to initiate a front flip.  We are calling it the Floopsy-Doo.

Peering from the hammock a little bit Southeast, you could see the river mouth surf break, a world famous Left.

This is a staple trademark rock that was just in front of our spot.  The sunsets were OK too……

Hey guys,

You might have noticed the the blog has been out of action for about a week. Our boys Jesse Lakes, and Jesse Passinyck have been working hard to get it back, and they succeded. If anyone is looking for a GREAT place to host their website, please consider www.ionsol.com for your serving needs. They have been great to work with, and always help out when we need them.

Guys, we had some Camera Carnage, and lost some images, so sorry we are short on this post.

We were down to 9 gallons, and were able to fill up with 100 more gallons of Chicharron (pig) Oil outside Guatemala city. We are sitting pretty now, especially since we hooked up through several degrees of separation with Guatemala Biodiesel. A special thanks to Alejandro and Ricardo for filling our Biodiesel reserve tanks for next to nothing!!! These guys are making waves in Central America by collecting waste oil from Frito Lay factories and else where, and making it into Biodiesel. They have big plans for expansion in the future! If anyone is looking for information on obtaining 100% Biodiesel in Guatemala, we have the info you need. Keep up the good work boys. We left Guatemala City and drove 4 hours to La Libertad, El Salvador sporting 235 gallons of fuel (full capacity).

We also got in some of the biggest media publications and television programs in the area, and ramped up interest for their cause.

We have had a full packed house….even Grandma stopped by for a visit!

The Reggae Ambassador/Lyrical King spent almost a week with us.  We dropped him off, and will always miss him (and the i-pod he somehow made off with!)

Seth got a new John Deer Hat, which seems to be working for him.

Anna made a new friend.

You can´t always believe what you read in the Lonely Planet…..the bugs are not actually very bad down here.

We are in route to Guatemala City to fill up with Biodiesel, and Antigua for more schools.  However, we couldn´t help but stop over for a quick jaunt on the flooding class IV/V Cahabon River.  We had an awesome day!

Andy and Anna followed along high above.