Delayed reactions...

My goodness, has it really been two weeks since I last posted? Wow. My apologies to everyone who may have taken the time to check this in the interim! I hope I never go that long again without writing again. So much happens in just two weeks--I've been keeping a daily travel journal and I've already filled at least 40 pages. I'll break these weeks' updates up into several smaller posts to get caught up. There's way too much to try to compress into a single, coherent post!