Oops!

Dear friends and casual readers,

Forgive my lack of recent blog updates. I have been both away from the internet in the past three weeks as well as happily seeking distraction with new friends and thus I have been avoiding my blogging duties. Now that we are almost one month in (wow! I'm actually not far from the Mississippi River as I write this) and the getting-to-know-you phase of group bonding is subsiding, I promise more frequent updates.

Since Day 6 highlights of my trip have included: crossing the Eastern Continental Divide in Pennsylvania, taking the World's Steepest Vehicular Inclined Plane from Johnstown, PA, fighting packs of barking dogs in West Virginia (and Kentucky and Indiana and Illinois), the Habitat Builds in Morgantown, WV and Lexington, KY, my homestay with Emma at Jan Taylor's house in Lexington, our visit to the Woodford Reserve Bourbon Distillery in KY, our visit to the Taylor Made Horse Farm in Lexington, KY, my day at the races in Louisville, KY, the magical evening in New Harmony, IN, and finally the 13 miles of gravel roads and torrential downpours through Illinois.

Entries on all of the above to come soon.

What I'm looking forward to?? Crossing the Mississippi River tomorrow and heading to the Gateway to the West!