Blogs from Maracay, Central, Venezuela, South America

Hello everyone! We live! We arrived and survived. So, we flew into Simon Bolivar airport today and we were lost from the start. But it did not happen that fast. From LAX, we got on a plane we thought was en route to San Jose, Costa Rica. Little did we know that we would be seeing a whole different part of Central America - Guatemala. It was short-lived, but an interesting stop. The boarding pass said nothing of this short layover. I met a man named Antony who was on his first plane flight ever. He was visiting a friend in Costa Rica - a doctor from Mendocino. He threw up the holy trinity a few times and we made it safely into San Jose, so I might have him to thank. Anyways... we made it ... read more

I do!!!! I think I´ve mentioned this before, but I´ve found me in a Venezuelan orphanage for Christmas and I couldn’t be happier. I´m in Valencia, the 3rd largest city in Venezuela, in a 32 child home located at the base of a mountain. The house has some beautiful property that was donated to the organization in 1988. There are 2 houses here, one the ´lower´ house where the older girls sleep and the ´upper´ house where everyone else is. I´ve got all of my personal belongings in the lower house but I sleep in the upper (I can´t keep my stuff in the upper or the little ones would just rip it all apart and spread it all over the place, so I have it behind closed doors in a safe place). I get to ... read more