After months of anticipation and planning, we are making our final preparations for this year's big adventure, an exciting road trip through Guatemala. The truck has been tuned up, cleaned out and packed. My camera batteries are juiced up and my lenses cleaned and packed. Rob has his ipod loaded up with great traveling music. Birdie and Cole have been counting down the days and gathering the games, crayons, sketch pads, cards and dominos that will occupy them during the long drive days. Connor, now 16, was given the option to come along or stay at home with Stuart and enjoy a break from parents and siblings, the latter of which he gladly accepted. Unlike our trip through Belize last spring, we are armed with an excellent well marked map and an itinerary which is, of
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