Life is Good at the beach: July 2014

July 5, 2014- We are home, we are Home, we are Home

Dan- For the past year of our travels (51 weeks to be exact) we have had many homes. Our family joke was to refer to where-ever we were at the moment as home, then the place that was we were staying long term as home, and finally our house in Santa Fe as home. For example, when we were in Roatan, our house there was home, home. But when we traveled to Panama from Roatan and we talked about going back to our hotel we would be going home, home, home. I am happy to report that we are now HOME!

We arrived back to our beautiful house and home on July 1. My Dad drove us from Colorado and we were greeted by our wonderfully warm and supportive community. We have spent the last five days very slowly un-packing and organizing our house. All of us have been experiencing many different feelings about being home and going through our own levels of culture shock.

We had wonderful visits with most of our families the last three weeks. We are so glad we got to spend time with you.

We hope you have enjoyed following our adventure. It has been wonderful to record part of our trip through words and pictures. Of course the blog is not the full picture and we are enjoying talking about our trip in person, so if you want to know more please ask. As Marino said when we got to Roatan and the reality of living there was not like what the lovely on-line photos showed, “the pictures lied to me!”

For everyone following in Roatan, we miss you and hope to return soon. Please stay in touch.

Our year away was different in many ways then our original vision. Yet, our overall experience was the adventure that we had wanted. We all grew and learned so much by our experiences. We feel so blessed to have been able to travel away from our home and country for a year, then to return safe and healthy.