San Pedro La Laguna, Guatemala (Feb-Mar)
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| The patron saint at the center of San Pedro. |
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| One of the streets adjacent to the market in San Pedro. |
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| Our Guatemalan hosts Mayda and Mauricio with their daughter Aweex on her 2nd birthday. |
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| Our host's mother Magdalena makes tortillas on the wood-burning hearth in the kitchen. |
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| Our family and Spanish teachers at Cooperativa language school. |
Ecuador (Apr-May)
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| We never tired of sunsets nor of the ocean along the Ecuadorian coast. |
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| Our beach-front lodging at Villa de los Suenos gave us our most relaxing vacation ever. |
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| Miles of sandy beach, mostly to ourselves. |
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| Atticus's improvised oatmeal bath when he got chicken pox. |
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| To this day, the playful Lab Choco is one of the boys' favorite memories of our year. |
North American Camping Trip (Jun-Sep)
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| Mountain biking in Moab, Utah. |
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| Wildlife in Yellowstone National Park, the family's favorite of the 17 national parks we visited. |
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| Jumping on a glacier along Canada's Icefields Parkway. |
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| Strolling through Prairie Creek in Redwoods State and National Parks. |
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| Trying to feel significant in Sequoia National Park. |
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| Taking in the vastness of the Grand Canyon. |
Homesteading in Maine (Oct-Nov)
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| Our "gnome home" or "hobbit house" in the Maine woods. |
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| The classroom building at Koviashuvik Local Living School--a construction project we worked on while apprenticing. |
We named our blog 525,600 Minutes in reference to how many moments or minutes there are in a year. Our retrospective here is brief but to us it's mind-blowing how diverse and exceptional our 2014 experiences have been. We're fortunate to have these memories.
Have a Happy New 525,600 Minutes!
