we're in st. lucia (halfway to our final destination-southern brazil)

What a day. We left this morning from Provo, Turks and Caicos...and flew 3 and a half hours to St. Thomas, Virgin Islands. We decided to go on from there to Grenada, but not without going through the trials of customs! Yay! Customs! Our favorite! Finally after around 2 hours of waiting and utter confusion, we took off from St. Thomas and only got so far as St. Lucia, the sun was setting faster than we thought and so we changed our plan and landed here. After more chaos and confusion in customs we made it to our cute little hotel...finally something decent, where we may actually feel safe. And they are actually friendly here, so that makes the experience that much better. We will take off tomorrow morning and fly on to Grenada and beyond perhaps to Suriname.

Thanks again for all the comments, we forgot all our troubles and tiring day, when we read them....all the best back home and beyond....keep in touch!

Here are some pics to make you drool....we love St. Lucia...

ps...none of these pictures are of st. lucia, as we arrived here at sunset, so it got dark quite quickly...the top of enroute to St. Thomas, the second pic is the St. Thomas airport, the third picture is taking off from St. Thomas and the bottom is the view from our Turks hotel room...

turks and caicos

Hey...finally found a hotspot, to do some blogging. Updates may not be as frequent as before as we aren't finding wifi connections as easily. We took off yesterday from Jonesboro, Arkansas, and then we flew to West Palm Beach, Florida. It took us about 6 hours, in two legs. We stayed in a crappy motel and then left asap the next morning for the airport. We left this morning around 9:45 and flew into the Bahamas, and now we are all nice and cozy in our island hotel here in Providenciales, Turks & Caicos. We had to buy some minutes to get online, so can't say too much...but we will say IT'S HOOOOOOOOOT! Really beautiful here, the flight was incredible, everything went really well. Hope everything is well at home, we thank you so much for your prayers and thoughts, we can feel them as we fly! Thank you so much!!! Again, updates won't be as frequent...but we will try as often as we can. Tomorrow, we hope to fly to St. Thomas, Virgin Islands and then on to Grenada....stay tuned....

staying put

We're staying put here in Jonesboro, Arkansas. The weather is good here but the weather elsewhere isn't. Nothing is going as planned but that is what we expected. We're staying at a Holiday Inn and we thought it would be better. Our room has no windows to the outside, only windows to the massive hallway. The weather doesn't look so good for tomorrow here either but we hope that it will change.

We'll keep you posted.

update for monday

We are still sitting here in our hotel in Jonesboro, Arkansas half hour north of Memphis Tennessee. We have decided to wait a little while as there are bad thunder storms South of us towards Alabama. So, no go for Florida today, perhaps....but we will try for one leg this afternoon, landing in Tuscaloosa or Montgomery. So we're grounded for now...

here are some pictures from the last couple days

Somewhere on the way from Montana to Wyoming...it was so cold
The Schroeder Farm (Moundridge, Kansas)
Our host Richard Schroeder (on the far left) in Kansas
Us 3 ready to take off from Hutchinson, Kansas

i don't think we're in kansas anymore

After taking the morning off in Hutchinson, Kansas, the weather was so beautiful we decided to fly one more leg closer to Florida. So we took off about 2:00 pm and had a two and a half hour flight to Jonesboro, Arkansas. We flew over Witchita, Kansas, to Tulsa Oaklahoma and then made our way to Jonesboro, where we are spending the night at a hotel. Tomorrow we hope to fly to West Palm Beach, Florida, we should be able to make it in about 5 hours, with one landing in between. We find ourselves asking, "where are we now???"

Thanks for all your messages, they encourage us and we love reading them...keep thinking of us....tune in tomorrow.

storm stayed in kansas

We decided to stay an extra day in Kansas. We are staying at the Schroeder's farm in a town called Moundridge. Our dad met Richard Schroeder when he went to Thailand a few years ago and it worked out perfectly to land and stay here. We appreciate the hospitality. It's actually really beautiful here, and supposed to get quite warm, but there are thunder storms towards our next destination which is Tuscaloosa, Alabama, near Birmingham. It's nice to relax for a bit, and hopefully our next leg won't be as turbulent. We'll be back...