Here is one of our analogies of our trip. This is what it feels like to be on this trip, to us.At home, imagine everyone is on a 5 lane freeway. Most everyone is driving fast, heads down, trying hard to keep up. Sometimes some lift their head up, eyes closed, to straighten their necks for a bit and loosen their stiff neck and shoulder muscles but then they quickly put their heads down again to go, go, go.We feel like we lifted our heads, slowed down, opened our eyes, SAT UP and actually veered off a side road. We slowed down even more (Mexico does that to you) and got off whatever vehicles we were on or in, and walked. Then, we slowed down even more and actually stood still and took in our environs, our space, our surroundings. Now our eyes were really opened. Our head cleared, and are still clearing even though this part of the trip we are heading back to that 'race' back home. We hope to hang on to this feeling of being off on the side road and off the road all together. We hope to keep our minds cleared and our eyes wide open, able to take in our surroundings and take deep breaths of the life we live.