My body is in Colorado, my heart is still in Peru

Adjusting to the USA
When we landed in Atlanta for our connecting flight, I was thinking I could never leave the US again. Everything here is so clean and security is so good. Then as we were waiting for our connecting flight to Denver we started to look at the pictures we had taken and the faces of the villagers made me want so badly to get back to the Amazon.

The VAST difference in our wealth in the US and the abject poverty of the villagers in the Amazon is so stark that it almost makes me hate money, as Kizzy said it would. I saw some young lady with a fake tan, tons of jewelry and expensive designer clothes walking through the Atlanta airport with her nose in the air. That would normally be a turn off for me anyway, but seeing it so soon after my villages just made me depressed. Soon we were boarding the plane to Denver and I had to pass through the 1st class seating to get to coach. Again, snooty people with too much money. It was all I could do not to lean over and tell this man that I could give electricity to a whole village just with the money he paid for his 1st class seat.

I lost my cell phone in Peru and so went to get a new one. For the feature that I wanted everything was going to cost 79$ so I got a 'Droid' phone. It has all kinds of neat features but the whole time I am thinking that it would be worthless in the Amazon.

I have been so tired since I have been home. Being at 6000 feet altitude rather than 0 feet in the amazon is really kicking my butt. Spending time with me kids and wife has been so nice because I missed them so much. I could only talk to them once while I was gone which made the separation a little more difficult.

More help from the Peruvian Govt
The day we flew out we met with another Peruvian government department that handles all charity groups. They will get each of us AND our family members Visa's for more than 1 year so that we can more easily get in and out of Peru and do work there. Also we will be able to bring in supplies without having to deal with customs, all this is a gigantic deal!