Traveling Home Plans

From: MJS
To: CRS

I am OK with loaning you some money if you need it to get by. I can deposit to your local account. If your visa expires on the 10th and your plane ticket isn’t good until the 16th, how do you do that? Hang upside down like a bat in a tree for a week? LOL


Date: Jan. 3, 2005
From: CRS
To: MJS

Hey Mom, I have enough funds to keep me afloat until I return home, which I am planning on around the 16th. That’s really not long from now. I am pretty sure I’ll have work and a paycheck lined up for February, and yes, a portion of that first check will immediately go to paying off that stupid credit card.

My visa for Columbia expires on the 10th, not my “new” visa for Ecuador that I will get upon crossing that border. It just means I have to cross the Columbian border next week. And I will have no problem getting down there by the 10th. Then I have a few days in Quito to clean things up, say goodbyes, and dance some salsa.

My birthday was wonderful! I am still covered in salt from our sea visit. Me and my family and some gringo friends all went to a special beach together. I’m excited to get back to the house now and continue the party. I am teaching them how to make French toast tonight… nope, not vegan. But they’ve assured me that the chickens that layed these eggs were raised free and happy and with no amount of violence. They totally respect my diet, and although they aren’t quite willing to totally give up meat, they have switched to brown rice, brown sugar, whole wheat breads and pasta and have made their first purchase of soymilk this week. We all ate all vegetarian meals today for my birthday! Funny, huh! I will definitely come back and live with this family again. I am going to miss them terribly when I leave.

As I miss you! I will be thinking all kinds of warm thoughts of you as I get on the bus tomorrow and begin the first leg of a very long trip home. Much love, C.

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