045 - USA - Colorado
03/20/09 - 03/23/09
Brother Levi in Colorado Springs
Coming back to the States after 13 months of global travel injected some serious patriotism back in us (especially Hannah!). Waiting for our luggage at LAX I saw an older Hispanic lady struggling with her jumbo-bags. Speaking in Spanish, I offered her a hand... then I thought, wait a minute, I bet she speaks English! In fact, everyone here speaks English! I can read the road signs, order food from a menu without being lost with 40% of the choices, and bus numbers aren't in Arabic! Woo-hoo, it's good to be back!
It's not just the language, we have things pretty good here. Things have set prices, the roads are the easiest to drive in the world, and we've got less corruption than any country Hannah and I visited during our travels. Yeah, stuff costs more, health insurance is a joke, and there's as many laws as grains of sand on the beach. But hey, that's the price of paradise, my friend!!
Alright, enough ranting about Americana, we packed up the Suburban with everything including the kitchen sink (after living out of a
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