Back in the USA!

We are finally home after 9 months of roaming the world. Our last few days of the trip we spent golfing, sunning and zipping the lines in Costa Rica -- what a blast --but the real magic came when we stepped off the plane in Denver. How to explain what that felt like? Like comfort and happiness and family, all rolled into one. It sounds so cliche, I'm sorry, but there is no place like home and when I say home, I mean our home here in Colorado, but I also mean the United States of America. If you want your kids to appreciate what they have and where they live, take them to places like Cambodia or Zimbabwe or India, all of which are stunningly beautiful but with much poverty. This has been an experience we could never duplicate (nor would we want to) and probably never equal in terms of its effect on all of us.
Thank you for taking the journey with us. Thank you for religiously reading my ramblings and poring over the pictures wherein we tried to capture some of the beauty of what we saw. As much as my family would like me to, I'm
Canopy Tour
The boys waiting for their turns on the zip line.NOT writing a book about all of this, but if you ever need advice on travels to any of these places, don't hesitate to contact us. The blog is not going anywhere, so enjoy it as much as you would like. I know we will.
All our love,
Ted, Jill, Tyler and Griffin Nelson

P.S. Some stats for you:
We visited 42 countries
We stayed in 100 hotels
We took 3 cruises and 9 trains
We had 73 flights for a total of 89,670 miles EACH (Ted had more; Ty had less)

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