Hey! How're you all? "Super-Bien" here and that's all good.

My update:

I bused from Panama to Costa Rica and while there in the capitol San Jose I came across and interviewed an edgy tall redhaired Quaker woman that was an election monitor for the recent abortive Presidential term-limits referendum of Honduran Presidente Zelaya. This was breaking news and I became a witness to History, albeit 2nd hand. The balloting had been dissallowed by both their Honduran legislature, their Supreme Court and long-time usa backed militarists but was being unilaterally pursued by the Executive branch. Likely because the Center-Right President had recently displayed Communista colours and moved for a Fidel Castro/Hugo Chavez-styled consolidation to restructure the realm. In this type of hemispheral model, El Presidente assumes total control and as all other power centers are eliminated, so the Presidente was perceived a threat declared a criminal and was deported in the night to Costa Rica by heavily armed, masked soldiers. "But what do the People want?" Which People? There's plenty of non-consensual clamor over this being expressed in Honduras and elsewhere regionally, so I don't even want to get into that. Not to mention not wanting to be embroiled in the Central American Presidential controversy in another of my previous homes, Guatemala. Central America, a place with much to offer and high up on my Good Places to Live list regardless of tension or turmoil mostly just focused out of proportion by the press. I mean Paradise is hard to look past. Right.

So...leaving Costa Rica by Super Saver flight I flew on to Denver, Colorado but abandoning the connection airfare onward to Los Angeles, California I instead yielded to tempation, busing by Greyhound to an old hometown - Glenwood Springs, Colorado where the World's largest outdoor hotsprings is located. Ahhh! A couple long hot soaks amidst that gorgeous mountain scenery and I was right off again on the bus to Missoula, Montana my next stop. I was off to visit family this trip and as it was by then Sunday in Missoula this meant shouldering my backpack and hitchhiking back out of Montana to wild-on Idaho to get to my Brother's home at his mountain wilderness river resort, Three Rivers. It was a nice visit with wonderful people and a terrific scenic stop - after about a week I hitched back to Missoula, Montana to fly on to Los Angeles, California to visit with my older Sister and her branch of the family. This soon meant a trip to her family's beach houses near Rosarit0 Beach in Baja. Que Bueno! Since returning from Old Mexico I walked back across the border at Mexicali recently to eat 3 tacos - seemed the thing to do and the people were great. This whole bad press that Mexico has been getting is non-substantial, now anyway. Go visit!

I'm gearing up with a change of clothes, pack and a laptop to live with for another year. The USA is too expensive for me and to live in a reasonable life means taking the road to the 3rd World. Where I always wanted to travel off to, so at Year 2 now I'm feeling I've arrived and find I'm not so much a traveler as a Baby Expat and the old homeland has just become another foreign land. Guess travel is Broadening.

Touching base with the rest of my family and still to visit my ailing Mom and my Son has strong power for me now back in usa for awhile. Great to be reconnected from time-to-time but the time to relocate and see more of this planet looks like a goalpost just down the way.

But Which Way?