Technical difficulties

Oy.  It's been almost a month since my last blog post.  My ambitions for regular entries was thwarted by two major technical difficulties: (1) my external hard drive, on which I was storing video, crapped out; and (2) we lost our video camera (a bizarre occurrence I still can't figure out).  We do have a digital camera, which takes (poor) video and I will try to post photos and some video to catch up on our travels.  We appreciate your patience and interest.