Back again.

So finally we made it back to Texas.

This time around Nicaragua, Honduras, El Salvador, Guatemala and Mexico were all a bit of a blur and we finally wound up in Nuevo Laredo border crossing from Mexico into the USA. Although it wasn't the 8-hour epic of the Costa Rican crossing, it still took us 5 hours to clear the border making a grand total of 24 hours in the same seat which even for me must be some sort of a record...

We got to San Antonio and pretty much conked out at Ross's place for a good few hours. After which we got back to Houston with him to surprise Tracy's mother and Bart (her older brother for those unacquainted with the Thompson clan) who had no idea we'd be visiting. We also got to visit the new house - which has come together very nicely - and gather all the Thompson kids under the same roof at the same time without any major fallings out. Quite an achievement! Unfortunately though, this time was a very quick visit because we need to be back in Chihuahua on the 14th for the Cave of Crystals - more on this in a future post...


Anyway - a good time was had by all and we managed to equip ourselves as best we can for the drastically different weather we'll find up in the frozen north.