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The trip started yesterday

The trip started yesterday in one vehicle, but because of clutch problems I had to turn around ten miles out. Fortunately I had access to another vehicle and had left early. So we finally left Shell about 12:40 PM. Then, halfway to Baños we had to wait at least thirty minutes while they cleared the road from some blasting they have been doing. Also, the road was in such poor shape that we couldn't go very fast at all. What should have been an hour and fifteen minute trip took me two hours. Then there was some construction past Latacunga, so that slowed us down even more. Finally, as we entered Quito, there was hard rains and some mild flooding on the road in spots. But I did make it. Sandi, from the Sucua base, came with me, as well as a friend of here, Lora. Her friend has been visiting her for three months and is heading back to the States tonight.

I've been at the MAF office here since 8 AM this morning. I'm trying to get an old server set up with Windows 98 and an HP LaserJet printer that needs to be shared. I also did some maintenance and applied some Windows updates to browsers and e-mail programs.