After a long, hot week of hard work and focus on the kids, the team at Dulce Refugio blessed us with an afternoon to decompress from the intensity of our time here. We piled into the vans and drove about two hours to Guanajuato, a historic town with strong European influences nestled in a valley between the mountains. We ate lunch, learned a bit about the town, and then walked down 275 steps to the town below. We had about four hours to explore the town before piling back into the vans and heading back to Aguascalientes for dinner. The […]

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Four-thirty came very early for the Aguascalientes team, as we all met at the Fort Wayne airport! Luggage check-in went smoothly and we circled up for a prayer with the team and family members. Twenty-one of us boarded the 6:00 flight to Dallas. We transferred to another two-hour flight into Aguascalientes, where we were met by Jeremy and Duane, our hosts for the week. We are all thankful that out travels were smooth and our flights were on time!!! Upon our arrival at Dulce Refugio, we received the Grand Tour…the facilities here are amazing and very unique, and we are […]

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Day “I don’t know” through Day “I’ve lost count” – Sunday, 10 January, 2010 through Saturday 16 January, 2010 If I’m being honest, I have to say that the second trip was rough. Seriously hard. After a week of “regular life” which included blowing nearly half of my working hours fighting with payroll over the paycheck they failed to issue while I was on leave, I boarded a 7:30 AM flight to JFK, with a 10-hour layover and then a 10-hour direct flight to Kyiv on Aerosvit Ukrainian Airlines. I truly believe I was the only person on that airplane […]

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