around the world in 180 days

We’re on our way to Mpls to catch our plane in the middle of the night and begin our trip around the world. The past week has been strange: we’re both unemployed and homeless and we’ve been driving around the state, visiting with grandparents and family for the last time for six months.

It’s like we’ve been leaving all week–everywhere we go, we visit and eat big meals, then we say goodbye, we’ll see you in 6 months, and then ramble on to the next stop.

The best trips start in the middle of the night. Kari has agreed to give us a ride to the airport at 3 am and our plane leaves at 5:30. We’re flying to Atlanta and then to Guatemala City, where someone from the mission in San Lucas will meet us with a van and give us a ride to the town we’ll be staying in and the family we’ll be staying with.
I think it’ll be interesting. I worked on a landscaping crew with a bunch of guys from Mexico while I was in school and they taught me all the swear words, but other than that, I don’t speak any spanish. When I do try to speak spanish, my Minnesota accent is so bad that I feel like I’m offering people a hotdish everytime I try to say anything. Anna will be a little better off; she took Spanish in high school and spent some time in Mexico. I think she’ll pick things up pretty quickly and I’m sure I’ll even start to recognize words. When I was working with that landscaping crew, I could understand what they were talking about, I just couldn’t contribute to the conversation. Which is fine with me.
Yeah. So. World tour ’07, about to be under way. I can’t wait. I’m gonna try, but I doubt I’ll be doing much sleeping tonight. So it goes. I will sleep all the more soundly tomorrow night in Guatemala.
Keep us posted on the goings on here in Minnesota. We want to visit the rest of the world, but Minnesota will always be our home. Help keep things here familiar for us.

 

see you in 6 months!!

Aaron and Anna

Tags: Travel

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