yes, we are back in the USA

Sorry for everyone who has wondered the answer to this question for a while now. I kept meaning to write this post but just kept putting it off because, well, it's sort of depressing. For those of you that haven't heard yet, we were evacuated from Madagascar due to continued political unrest. The Peace Corps suspended the Madagascar program and all 120-something volunteers were flown to South Africa in mid-March. We spent about a week there before closing out our Peace Corps service and returning to the Unites States.

Aren't you so glad to be back?...everyone asks. The honest answer to that question is...no, not really. Of course it has been great to see family and friends, but we were also loving Madagascar and expecting to spend another year there. We miss our home and our friends back in Madagascar, who will undoubtedly suffer more from this coup d'etat than we ever will.

Homeless, jobless wanderers that we are, we've been spending the last 5 weeks traveling the U.S, crashing on people's couches, and looking for jobs along the way. We started out driving south through Memphis (yes, we were walkin' in Memphis, and yes, we had our feet 10 feet off of Beale), and on to New Orleans. I'd never been to the Big Easy and Dave was so excited for me to enjoy my first hot boiled craw fish.



From New Orleans we headed to Washington, DC, then on to NYC. We'll be heading back to DC soon to attend a career fair put on by the Peace Corps. So although our Madagascar adventure looks to be over, we still have a lifetime of adventures ahead of us and I will do my best to keep this blog updated with some of them!