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We arrived home this morning to find this sign on our front door. It has been an incredible day of readjustments, hellos to family and frien...

Zane was a trooper on our flights yesterday, hanging in there until the very end when we arrived in Seattle. We watched the "Cars...

As we pack up the final things into our tuc-tuc bags and head for the airport, it's a sunny morning at Hotel Aurora.  The reality of ...

We watched a number of soaked tourists walk by our window (as we sat inside, dry, eating ice cream). They kept slogging through the six-inc...

We've never been in Antigua during an afternoon downpour. Of course, it makes sense that since there are no gutters, all the water crea...

Some of you have asked specific tech-related questions about what we used to set up the lab in Tierra Linda: Computers: Mac iBook G4's, ...

We took it slow today, enjoying a quiet Saturday for the first time in a long time. Late this afternoon, on the way to El Viejo Cafe, we po...

When we can find a playground, Zane is happy for hours.

We left for Antigua at 4 PM, which is the typical "hour of downpour" these days. The road was an adventure, but we're here sa...

Without Candelaria's patient coaching and correcting, we'd never have been ready or able to progress as we have. We're sad to s...

Adele made calzones for us today, as a final send-off lunch on the rooftop. We're sure going to miss seeing them regularly, and their f...

Gael (Abel's son) was along for the final ride with Abel today. Zane is going to miss his tuc-tuc a lot.

Abel finished up the final projects for us last night (bags, purses, and a coffee-sack tablecloth) in the nick of time. We're bringing ...

The major Pana event this week is the opening of the new "Depensa Familiar" grocery store. It's a chain (supposedly owned by ...

We caught a ride with the hotel's cargo boat on the way home.

It was a spectacular, clear, silent final morning on Lake Atitlan.

Casa Del Mundo has a wood-fired hot tub, which means it actually has a woodstove submerged in the tub. Don't try this at home, kids (un...

I roasted and bagged our coffee with Mike early this morning, we finished packing, said goodbye to Rosa, then to Rosy and Bill, and headed t...

In a matter of minutes, the river changes from a 6-foot-wide trickle to a torrent. The excavator was parked forty feet from the edge this m...

The little fold-up rain ponchos would always be good things to bring along, as you can see. Very few people have raincoats, and most use pi...

It was a grand thunderstorm this afternoon, and the main streets were filled with six inches of river. It was raining too hard to get bette...

We stopped by the market to say goodbye to Santa, Joel, Rodolfo, and the family this afternoon. They gave us a tipico bag to remember them....

Conexions partners with Dr. Juan Pablo in Panajachel, and we've been working hard to find and deliver a new part for his ultrasound mach...

Leonard the Lajartija (salamander) lives in one of the plants in our house, except when he emerges to use the internet.

We kill a small flock of flying ants every day in our house, and apparently one escaped, laid eggs, and they hatched...into carpenter ants! ...

We arrived with our stuff packed in Rubbermaid bins, four months ago. We are leaving the bins as storage for the computers and printer, so ...

Greg was showing me the school website, and explaining what the graduates are now doing. The people are so proud to say that their children...

The stories that Greg has experienced here cannot be recounted, but they have made a real difference for these people.