The HILLS are alive (if we had hills) with the aroma of Cubano…

My heart is SINGING this morning (Jody, you might want to skip this) after downing a blissbul cuppa. We had run out of the recent discovery of wonderfully roasted coffee and were subsisting on Jamie’s re-roast of Chiapas coffee we’d purchased at City Club. Ooooh! The new City Club is open! Yesterday I headed to our coffee roaster and picked up two kilos and am loving this stuff so much. I generally only have one cup a day, but this heavenly joe is amazing and I find I can’t have just one cup.

I think I scared the roasters a little; I was gushing so much about their coffee and our plans to buy oodles of it for when we leave and just yammering on and on and on and by the time I left I think they would have paid me to just shut up and go. So, I got the lovely beans.

I managed to finally get to a working phone and get my MT materials ordered after trying a phone in PdC (couldn’t get through with my toll free number workaround), a phone in Puerto Adventuras (no electricity) and finally another try in PdC was the charm. And it only took about a week. I’m excited to try out Merkalink though the shipping will be astronomical, it is really the only way to get 30-40lb of materials down here before summer, so it will be worth the extra expense.

Jamie and I have been exercising regularly and are pretty happy with ourselves. Jamie has even begun riding again. So far we’ve only had two walks in which I got myself warm enough to consider a dip in the sea, but Jamie looks hungrily at the sea each time we walk. It is a beautiful walk and we’re so lucky to be able to take advantage of it.

We’ve been considering the adoption of an animal and Jamie has acquiesced to the pleadings of the girls and will attend Saturday’s puppy wash. I wonder if we’ll have a companion? Jesse is the only one wanting a cat but I’m not sure Jamie or I could deal with one; Jesse loves the cuddly aspect of a cat, so maybe we’ll eventually have one of those things too. (sorry cat people)

Ah, what a disjoined, awful post, but I’m finding most of my energy going to Yoga and this poor blog gets the leftovers.

Oh! I’m DAILY so excited about the prospects of traveling this year, it is a joy in my heart I can’t begin to express. Some people would be overjoyed living on the Caribbean, and I really should count those blessings, but as beautiful as it is here, I’m happiest when the rubber side is down and rolling. We’re planning on headed to the New Mexico/Colorado border for a while and maybe volunteering in a national/state/whatever park in Idaho or Wyoming or something and then spending Tday in California. So, lots of travel to fill me up for the foreseeable future. I think the kids will be happy to be on the road also. I just hope everything still works and hasn’t rusted beyond repair.