A Rainy Night In Belize- Newsflash from Hannah!

January 27, 2011 in Belize, North America, Travelogue

As some of you know, our sweet Hannah is on her first solo expedition! She’s backpacking with kids on the mainland of Belize this week while we cool our heels on […]

Daily Discoveries: Tobacco Caye, Belize

January 27, 2011 in Belize, North America, Travelogue

If you close your eyes and imagine the blackest of velvet skies, studded with brilliant diamond stars peeking through a canopy of coconut palms waving in a warm night breeze […]

Tobacco Caye… it’s right where we left it.

January 26, 2011 in Belize, North America, Travelogue

I don’t know what is says for a kid when his first school bus experience is a chicken bus in Belize; nonetheless, this is Ezra’s experience. He got a lot […]

Belize By Moonlight

January 24, 2011 in Belize, North America, Travelogue

The wind is warm and wet off of the Atlantic tonight.  Costal Belize is so different from the Guatemalan highlands, in so many ways. We left Antigua with a bet […]

On Serendipity & Detours

January 21, 2011 in Guatemala, North America, Travelogue

Some days are not what one expects. I should expect this by now; especially when things are going perfectly.   Days when I cross continents, or switch them altogether, are […]

On shoveling and Karma

January 12, 2011 in North America, Travelogue, United States

in which I accept my fate.

On the 2:30 a.m. feeding & Love

January 8, 2011 in North America, Travelogue, United States

Sometimes the world is less complicated at two in the morning. Floating in a sea of darkness and an ocean of quiet there is less of a tempest in my […]

From Delta Flight 1600… somewhere over the Eastern Seaboard

January 5, 2011 in North America, Travelogue, United States

    Airports are like a country themselves.  They have a distinct government, culture, language and economy.  Once inside the network, you’re sheltered from the rest of the world in […]

The Journey Continues…

January 4, 2011 in Guatemala, North America, Travelogue

In which the Grandparents leave, Hannah makes some money & we say goodbye…

Happy New Year

January 1, 2011 in Guatemala, North America, Travelogue

The New Year did not come quietly to Guatemala.  I don’t think it ever has.   It began with a lot of squealing children hugging the daylights out of Dennis, […]