Hello Everyone! I'm back in Iowa safe and sound from my trip to Colorado. It was a great week with Francisco, what a beautiful state it is.....(Can't wait to see the mountains of southern chile now!) The hours are slowly winding down for me to fly! It's midnight, and I leave for the Cedar Rapids airport at 3am. My lovely mother and Aunt Darla are the lucky crazy ladies who are going to give me a ride bright and early. I fly to atlanta, to lima peru, to tacna, then bus to arica. It will be a long 26 hours of traveling/layovers....but so worth it :) Just a little update, last week I learned the hard reality of foreign taxes. My art supplies arrived safely in my host family's house, but they were charged an additional ... read more