Yes I made it here. We made it here. The five members of the lead team for this project and the Guild president made it to Rzeszow Airport and took a bus to our home for the next 7 weeks. This is a former Soviet Army R&R facility with simple cabins. Our host is called Adam and speaks a bit of German, which made me quite important for the first few days. Yesterday a polish speaker from England arrived to join the crew. That spreads the load!
We have our logs. The site has way more slope than you would imagine from the picture... Our tool crate has a rendezvous with customs of undetermined length, the log moving machine won't show up till Monday around noon. The materials for sawhorses and other miscellaneous things might be here Tuesday... The usual delays and challenges.
But hey! At least we have a spotty internet connection thanks to a young kid in a computer store in town, who it turns out is only too shy to speak a rather passable English, if encouraged. Now my laptop serves as the wifi hotspot for a bunch of american mosquitos trying to suck the blood out of the internet.
One thing that worked instantly is beer and vodka. Within three hours of arrival, Adam had broght over plenty of local beer and two beers into the night he went and found the five liter bottle of forest spirits. This elixir has gotten the name 'bison grass' for its color and flavor giving ingredient, and we have way less respect for it than we should have. Only one of six has a complete memory of that first night and we woke up to finding Jim with a blue eye and Alicia with a cut big toe. blood all over the terrace and floor... Joel assures us that both incidents were innocent and unrelated accidents, and that we all behaved very well, if seriously debilitated.
Pictures soon. Once I get back to using my 8 year old camera which makes much more manageable files than that hot shot expensive new phone I bought. I'll let you know if I decide to go with a polish simcard and a new number!
Enough for now from a jetlagged Ger
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