What To Do When You're Waiting for Paperwork in Calexico

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Salvation Mountain; Crazy place in Niland, CA where this guy built up a mountain of hay, coated it in something, then used thousands of gallons of paint to cover it in scriptures and decorations.

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Mountains and desert on one side and the accidentally created Salton Sea with its pelicans on the other. The kids had fun finding pelican feathers.

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The International Banana Museum in Mecca, CA had almost everything banana you could think of. 

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Wisteria Candy Cottage 

Unfortunately, this famous chocolate shop was closed on the day we visited... So we went to the:

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Desert view tower

The views at the top of this tower/shop/information center were spectacular but the wind was super strong! On the same property were some kid-friendly caves and rock formations.

Coming next: what to do when you unexpectedly hear your work visas will take an extra week and a half and you're in southern California...

Superlative Alert - United Arab Emirates: A Video Tour

For those of you who don't enjoy/remember grammar, a superlative is an adjective, (that's a describing word,) that ranks something in the most extreme form. Usually you create a superlative by adding -est to the end of the adjective: tallest, biggest, greatest, richest... all words you will probably hear in this video tour of the United Arab Emirates. I'll leave it up to you to decide whether the superlatives are exaggerating or deserved:

What? A third world country doesn't have info on the internet???

Wow.

Did you know that the only information available on Guatemala is tourist information? At least it seems like it.  Our school has provided what we basically need, but getting specific information (at least the kind that my inquiring mind wants to know) is next to impossible.

Fortunately, the missionary to Guatemala is a great guy and has been very patient answering questions that are important to me AND my wife!  He deserves a pay raise!  

Now I have an idea for a book I can write..."what all the tourist guidebooks don't tell you about Guatemala!"

Anyone know a publisher?