Homeward Bound

Wow! The internet is SO fast. I'm sitting at Stephen and Lourdes's house trying to get all my photos uploaded to my Photagious site. Unfortunately, I lost a bunch of my Croatia phootos when they deleted the public folder on the ship at noon the day before we got to Miami. I spent a day and a half trying to burn all my photos onto CDs, but couldn't do it fast enough to save them all. Early in the voyage I lost all the photos from San Diego and Hawaii when my camera malfunctioned. And while I am sad to lose these photos, it was more disappointing to have lost the photos of Tania and Brad visiting me on the ship in San Diego and all my Peace Corps friends in Hawaii.

Lots of people will think I am crazy, but it is wonderful to have returned to a blanket of snow. For the most part we spent much of the last 106 days in warm weather. There were some colder rainy days in Istanbul, some autumn colors in Dubrovnik and Granada, and one glorious snowfall in Zagreb. But we still had some warm days in both Croatia and Spain. And then we hit Miami...dragging our luggage, which well exceeds airline weight limits, wearing our bulky clothes we cannot fit into our luggage into the 80 degree heat. What madness!

It's been an interesting three months, and I look forward to sharing it with anyone who has the patience to listen.