home

well here i am, in my room on lopez, the last of my welcome home snowfall melting in the yard, my clothes freshly washed clean of volcanic dirt, and my sunscreen tubes packed away in the cupboard.

our trip home lasted from 3am to 11pm (pacific time - we only got up at 5am) . .
we had a bit of an odd itinerary, flying to miami, then dallas, and finally seattle. our flight from miami was delayed due to mechanical trouble, and we missed the connecting flight by a mere 10 minutes. wouldhave had to wait for our luggage anyway, so we just found dinner and waited for the back-up flight. gotinto seattle sometime after ten, checked to see that the rum bottles hadn't broken, traded my sandals for sneakers and headed to grandma's house.

thursday morning, i got to start my day with a belly laugh, looking out the window at the fresh snow covering grandma's backyard. slightly confusing, all that crisp white in place of palm trees and banana plants. . . my dear molly fay came over for a visit before we drove to the ferry; we all sampled the chocolates we brought back for grandma and did our best to 'catch up'.


the last few days haven't held much in the ways of activities, which is exactly what i had hoped for. aside from visiting my lopezian family and friends, i have been sifting through my things in preparation for my move back to bellingham, and trying to keep up some spanish practice. .
thankfully, my mind is still working in doubles - haven't lost all the auto-spanish i had going. . certain english words escape me at times and i find myself stuttering in spanglish. while the cold weather is a bit harsh here, i am not as shocked my it as i expected to be, physically at least. it's more confusing than anything. i am enjoying the various reunions that a return to home brings; all the people and places i get to experience here are making up for those i miss from my travels.

and now that life is 'normal' again, back to the usual hum-drum-college-life-northwest business, i will likely cease updating this web log.

i have plans for a return to nicaragua -probably next winter, and that time around will involve school credits- so once i'm out of our lovely corner of the country, i'll dust off the antennae and start this thing up again.

i promise that i have more stories to tell in person than the meager highlights and ramblings that made it into these documents. i look forward to trading the stories we've missed - let the face-to-face communications begin.
thanks for reading; i'm glad to be home

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