Debbie and Seth left last Thursday morning and it already feels like they have been gone a whole week. I have read more in the last couple of days than I have in the last few months.
I just finished a book called Darkest Jungle about a 19th century expedition to find a route for a sea level canal across the Isthmus of Darien in Panama. The expedition was successful only in that it proved that there was not a good route across that region. For various reasons, not the least of which is the extreme environment of the jungle, it took two months to make the crossing. The entire expedition team (21 men) nearly starved to death and 6 of them died either on the trail or shortly after they were rescued. It was a brutal trip.
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