guyana anyone?

Hello Everyone!! We woke up in St. Lucia, went to the airport and was guided through the process with relative ease, Thanks Zookie. We flew 1 hour to Grenada to get gas and then customs....again. Which took over 2 hours with us running around the humid airport like chickens. It was something like this, fill this out, go there, oops don't have the right papers, then a long moment of finding out our options, then go file a flight plan, but you can't get into that office unless you go through immigration and get your bags checked, then 2 or 3 times more of that then we were able to go. Then we were off to Georgetown, Guyana, where we arrived 3 hours later. Customs? Was a breeze, very nice people. We even made a friend and swapped addresses. Now we are in a hotel and got settled in minutes before a down pour. We are going to try to enter Brazil tomorrow!!!!

We've flown 31 hours total from home to here, we've gone through 6 countries already, in 1 week and 1 day. Not too bad....

Have a good Easter weekend everybody!! We will miss the Penner family reunion, we'll be there next time.

Bye for now...

ps...we decided today after the chaos of customs to not land in Suriname...as they require a visa to enter the country, and even though we wanted to refuel there, we just didn't want to take the risk. So from here to either Belem or if we don't get that far, we will land in French Guiana, in Cayenne...

pics: top: swimming in st. lucia, second: hotel in st. lucia, third, this morning taking off from st. lucia, with the huge cruise ship in the background, bottom pic: border of Venezuela and Guyana....

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.