Here is the entire family on New Years 2016.  We hiked Cerro del Pinicate in Sonora, Mexico.  The volcano is 4000 feet high and the hike is 14 miles long. At the top you can see across the Sea of Cortez.  We signed the book and there were less that 50 people that had climbed this volcano all last year.

This year Mom insisted we all get motorcycles and learn to ride.  She had that crash on a scooter in Laos and now she wants us all to be prepared for the next adventure. Awesome Mom!

On a trek through the Atlas Mountains….

It is important to bring gloves, hiking pole, long pants and good hiking shoes.  Luckily we were able to borrow a few of these items and thankfully Mom decided we should bring our new Gore Tex Jackets and not save them for a rainy day!

Top of Mount Toubkal, Morocco

Miles hates looking like a tourist……but sometimes you just have to. 

Mom’s favorite book is An Independent People by Halldor Laxness.  We went on a quest to stay on a sheep farm and imagine ourselves as characters in the book. Mom took to the newborns right away.

Although Miles preferred to be Egill Sallagrimsson’s (Iceland’s most famous Viking and Poet) brother, Thorolf (the handsome one)

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Miles is anxious to hunt for Trolls but….

he was sidetracked by the soft, friendly horses of Iceland.

Reykjavik , Iceland

We returned to the US last May 1.  On our way home we stopped at a Regatta in Worcester, MA.  Although it is just Miles and Mom, we were lucky to leave again on May 1, 2015.  This time our first stop was the Regatta in Worcester, MA.  Here we watched our favorite Coastie, daughter and sister row.   

Mom, Miles and Karisa in Providence, RI

With renters still in our house, we have been staying in Mexico, friends houses and our Airstream. Miles and I have been to the library for endless hours catching up on school.

We arrived to electrical turned off, fines for abandoned cars(a long story), and having to return two used cars we bought the first week we were back.  Mom said the good news is the bank wants to loan us money to continue our journey!

I think this picture says it all.  I am excited to go home, everyone else wants to continue traveling.