Ziggi's

Ziggi's is a local coffee shop, and our second favorite place to do work outside of our home right now (the first is our local library which is only 5-6 blocks from our house). We're sitting here right now working our way through emails (today is what we call an "email day" - in other words, we woke up to a bunch of emails in our Inbox and they continue to stream in throughout the day). We anticipate spending more time here in May because we're shutting off our home Internet service May 8th in preparation for many months away from our dear Longmont home.

We're also working through a bunch of Paraguay reports that we've been working on the last week, having just submitted one of them, sent another one off to be reviewed by a local Paraguayan partner, and editing the Inhouse Paraguay report to hopefully submit to our administration tomorrow. In between Paraguay stuff, we've been helping Christie put together her first Jamaica report and refining a public Dominican Republic report with Holly (which we hope will be up on the web soon!). All in all it has been quite a productive last few days.

We're inspired, really. We're so looking forward to the week of vacation that we're leaving for on Sunday morning. Our plan is to drive west through the beautiful Rocky mountain vistas of Colorado and into the stunning red rocks of Utah where we'll national park hop our way through the southern part of Utah, camping, hiking, and soaking in the peace along the way. We plan to culminate our trip with a day hiking around the Grand Canyon in northern Arizona and then make our way back home to squeeze in a few more work weeks before driving east and then north to Grand Forks, ND. We'll post pictures when we get back!