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Returning to a place you feel comfortable after a long journey is a great feeling. To drop your backpack, take off your shoes and allow yourself to relax. My mind is always “on” when we are on the road, constantly looking for danger, evaluating choices and trying to enjoy the current environment.

Laying on our guest room bed, Tamara and I do a brief overview of our trip….just to make sure we both were paying attention. It feels strange to be coming to the end of our trip.

Uli takes us on one last trip around Paraguay’s capital. We visited the recently closed main train station and saw the telegraph that his father-in-law used for so many years. We talked to the father-in-law later and he said that at times he communicates in his dreams in Morris code.

We also got to see/tour the oldest train in all of South America. The British sent this train for the first train on the continent in 1856.

As we were leaving the train station, a old strange sign caught our attention. It must have been there for years, out of sight but all the while projecting it’s message.

A night before we were to head back to the US, we were getting ready for meeting and there was an explosion. Running outside we expected to see a bomb crater but instead nothing….then BOOM! Lighting stretched across the sky in a horizontal display. Every 10 seconds for 30 minutes spidery horizontal lighting reached from one side of the sky to the other. I never thought that lighting could be so constant and have never seen that much of it.

While the lighting didn’t touch the ground, the rain sure did. Uli said that “it will be a wet one” and it was! Rain so thick you could not see more than a 100 feet.

We packed everyone into the car and drove the 8 minutes to the Kingdom hall. We were soaked by the time we got the 30 feet from the car to the front door. I started to feel kinda proud of ourselves for making it in such bad weather and then I noticed that even though the Khall was full, there was only 3 cars in front. Most everyone had walked in the rain to get here.

The trip back to Oregon was a long 4 different flight, 30 hour, 5 movie, 4 meal, 2 kids (one vomiting) ordeal that is best banished from the mind. We really enjoyed our trip but also enjoy re-learning what being home is about.

Hope you enjoyed the documentation of our trip to Paraguay, Uruguay and Argentina. Not sure where we will go or what we will do next but it will be posted here. There is a subscribe button on the front page if you wanted the posts delivered to your email address or feed reader.

Until our next trip…Christopher and Tamara