Fellow Virtual Travelers,
Happy Mother's Day to all! We've been safely back home now for 24 hours, having been awake for 36 hours straight to get home!
The jet lag has set in such that last night and today is largely a foggy dream. The kitties Sherlock and Dr. Watson are so happy to have their full-time slaves back! We owe a big Thank You to our friend Danielle, who took such good care of them in our home! They were relaxed when we got home and are needing lots of pets, laps and snuggles with us! Dr. Watson, who is only two years old, grew significantly in the last three weeks! Catching up to her big brother, Sherlock!
A big Thank You to Dennis' sister Brenda, who took us to and picked us up from DIA!
We have deposited the suitcases and the shoes we wore on the trip, in the garage where they will stay until we get them disinfected. They have been places and seen germs that you don't even want to know about!
We were greeted this morning with a Springtime Colorado snowstorm - have accumulated about four inches already! Fortunately Anita had filled up the wood barrels before we left, so that we'd have dry wood when we got home.
Logging into GoogleMail never worked well in China, though it had been fine on the 2012 trip. Making contingency plans were worth the while, as we were able to keep in touch via our Skybeam email accounts to the ShaolinExpedition list.
While we are connected with some of our Chinese friends on Facebook, we never could login to facebook.com while in China.
We figure in the last 3 weeks, we walked almost 100 miles, including around 10,000 stairs. We rose to the challenges, made adjustments as needed and just powered through seemingly impossible situations at times!
Between the two of us, we have brought back over 5,000 photos, a few hours of video and nearly 100 pages of Wudangshan history, folklore and legends. That doesn't include what information Master Karl gleaned or the photos he took!
Attached are some snapshots of life in China.
Thank you for following us on our adventure, for your interest and support during this adventure! It is good to be back home!
Blessings,
Dennis&Anita