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We’re baaaaack!!!

Saturday, March 10th, 2007

So I guess the 30 day time frame was a little of an underestimate. Try five months!!! Our apologies to all of our dedicated readers and avid followers who got short changed on the end of our amazing journey. As many of you know we lost (courtesy of Bootnsall server failure) our last two postings and it has taken us this long to get over our (Jeff’s!!) bitterness. Since we have now been back in the “real world” for over five months our memories on the details are getting a bit foggy but here is a short synopsis of our last month on the road:

– Horseback riding and chilling in the mountains of Hacienda Guachala in Northern Ecuador
– Final journey back to one of our favorite big cities, Quito and then off to the sweltering city of Panama City for a full education on the Panama Canal
– A quick flight to Guatemala to explore the environs for a full three weeks
– A trip to the eastern Guatemala to view the hidden Mayan city of Tikal, a “three-hour tour” (think Gilligan theme) down the Rio Dulce which opens up into the blue seas of the Caribbean
– Traveling cross-country on bus to the amazing Spanish colonial town of Antigua
– Enjoying the company of our gracious hosts, Jim and Martha including four days of homemade “Martha” meals, hand-crafted “Jim Gin and Tonics” and warm, just-out-of-the-oven chocolate chip cookies
– Stocking up on all our last minute gifts in the market town of Chichicastenango
– Traveling overland to our final country out of 25, Mexico
– Stopping off in the amazing, San Cristobal de las Casas for some “real” corn tortillas, some more shopping and one last church!
– A KING SIZE BED!! in Mexico City and then our last travel snafu which was our first canceled flight. Can anyone guess the carrier?? That’s right….Alaska Airlines! Typical…..
– Finally, an amazing homecoming to family, friends and, most of all, micro-brew beer with hot wings!!!!

Well what can we say?! We are lucky, blessed, thankful and humble about our experience. Yet, most of all, so confident we made the right choice at the right time in our lives! Now that we are back we have completely immersed ourselves in the “real” world, American style. Being that this is the case we have to run (of course, isn’t everyone always sooooo busy in the real world?) and catch dinner and a movie with some friends.

Please stay tuned as we would like to decompress our thoughts, opinions and ideas while at the same time catch all of you up on what we have been doing and, of course, WHERE ARE UPCOMING TRAVELS WILL TAKE US!!!