Wow we left Aldama.

Stan and I did not know if this day would ever happen. We finally are finished with our stove training here in Chiapas. ?. We are a few days late (revised departure). We wanted to leave on Wednesday. Like the rest of the project, we were glad to have the extra days.

When we first arrived we thought we would be here for about 12 days. Well that turned into an almost 45 day adventure, as we arrived on 13 Sept!

The actual training was only 15 days!

Wow we had some challenges and delays.

We though we could get both mold sets for Oaxaca into one box, but it would have been too heavy, so we made 2 boxes. Along with the molds there was a bunch of cut 2×2’s that can be used for the molds for San Luis Potosí.

At the end of the day. The first stove in Aldma is fully functional and the family loves it.??

We have had several meals cooked on it, and ate while they cooked for the promoters, with no smoke in the kitchen area. As a side note they remove their old (disfunctional) stove 2 days after their new La Mazateca Gen2.1 was ready for use. ??

The other 2 are curing, and 2 more are ready for assembly. Because the stove is mostly made from cement, and cement takes 28 days to fully cure, we are suggesting that stoves be cured for up to 28 days to improve the longevity. The promoters are happy and skilled, so we know that they can build out the remaining 21 stoves.

Anyway. We have a flight at 8:30 back to Mexico City, then back to Seattle on the 29th ?.