Here's Liddell showing off the satellite phone! Nice eh?

We're t-minus 10 hours from leaving for the airport and the apartment floor is covered in gear, snack bars and dogs!

To say we're excited is an understatement! We've been practicing our terrible spanish and Liddell has been very helpful in reminding us not to rub the water purifier tablets into our eyeballs. Andy is helpful to remind that they are not breathmints.

Pot scrapers, headnets, battery chargers, suncreen...everything's getting packed away. The only concerns we have are how to maintain the caffeine addiction and whether to bring running shoes!

and to all that we love- we promise to be safe, observant and present to the experience (apart from the flight we all hope to sleep through with the aid of benadryl!)

till next time- liz