The Plan B Adventure

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!!!

This is not a plea for money from your stranded travelers in some foreign country. Just the opposite actually. We arrived home to much fanfare on the 17th of September after the most amazing eight months of our lives. After documenting the last three weeks of our trip for you all to read the server on the Bootsnall website crashed…..Yes we know, that really sucks. Not only did we lose the documentation of our final three glorious weeks but we lost all our travelogues back to August 16th. Unfortunately we didn’t have access to print all of them off before the crash and desperately hope one of our anal-retentive friends or family members might have done so. If any of you have printed or saved our notes and stories please contact by email and let us know what your ransom will be….just kidding. No really, we will pay anything!!!

If we don’t hear from anyone we hope to recant all our journeys within the next 30 days so please be patient. We can’t tell you how much we cherished all your input and interest over the last eight months. We have memories that will last our lifetimes and strongly hope we have inspired many of you to create your own lifetime travel memories as well.

Love Becca and Jeff

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