We have been asked many questions on our journey about why we were doing what we were doing but the most difficult question has always been, "What was the best part of your trip?" Our standard (and most politically correct) answer was to always reply right where we were was the best! Philosophically I`m not convinced there can be a best part of such a journey as ours and analytically how would we define best if we could? Thus we have been wracking our brains...

Well, what a party! On Saturday, July 28th, Jessica Kornelsen (Tim's niece) married Joshua Derksen (a hunter-gatherer fellow with a lot of hair). The wedding was lovely and the reception deliciously fun. We were together again with Tim's mom and all five of his sisters (and their hubbies of course). It's the fanciest we've been for an entire year! In fact, even Naomi was in a dress (a phenomenon that hasn't come to pass in over 5 years!). We took Luc (one...

Speaking of home away from home, we got together with the entire Kuhn clan for another "family reunion." When I was in Switzerland I met this crazy Canadian girl from Leduc. Later when I decided to go to the University of Alberta in Edmonton, I called Leanne to see if she had connections where I could stay since I was coming in half way through the year. Apparently she knew no one, but I was welcome to stay at her home until I found somewhere else to go... f...

Once upon a time there were two welders, each with the name of Smith, although they were not related, who worked long hours far from home and lived together in work camps. Their lovely wives, each with three children, were neighbours who also worked long hours raising their small herds of kids and chickens. The men at camp became earnest friends and the women and children were inseparable. Eventually the women and children went with the men to the work camps a...