Date Written: Friday, March 4, 2005 1:00 p.m.

Well, I’m about 25 minutes away from what should prove to be another nice little adventure for me. I’m flying into El Salvador and I’ll be spending the next 10 days roaming around Central America. Yep, only 10 days...painfully short considering my past adventure, but you do what you can. The catalyst for this trip is that my friend Karina is getting married tomorrow. She’s from San Salvador but we met in Houston. The cool thing is that several of my friends from Houston will also be there, so I think it’ll be a nice little reunion...always good to party with my H-town crew.

In the past couple weeks leading up to this trip, I don’t think I’ve been that excited about it as I should be. The whole fact that I would traveling through exotic lands was being completely overshawdowed by the fact that I was escaping the cold, dreary weather of Boston. They just announced that it’s 90 in San Salvador!!! Now that’s more my style!! I’m telling you...everything in Boston is going fantastic, but the weather has had a serious hold on my mood. We’re turning the corner now though and I’m excited to experience the spring and the summer in Beantown.

Anyway, as little as 2 hours ago, I wasn’t sure about any sort of itenirary for this trip...but you know, that’s my way. I go by a famous Michael Jordan motto I heard years ago: “Just elevate and decide in the air.” So I’ve been looking though my “Let’s Go” and I can say that now that I’m on the plane, my excitement is growing by leaps and bounds!! I am becoming painfully aware that 10 days is WAY too short...so I’m gonna really have to step it up if I want to get in even half the things I want to do. Right now, I think the path will be San Salvador until Sunday, then up to Copan to see Mayan Ruins in Honduras...then get to a place called Utica in the Bay Islands by mid-week. Then I’ll swing over to Guatemala, do some hiking and finally back to San Salvador by next Sunday. We’ll see how it all unfolds. Strap yourselves in and get ready for another one...

AC