No news is good news!!

We’re presently spending a lovely few hours with the Mexican Military at a routine check point. No, we didn’t get nailed on anything but after a quick drug search, the newer van of our convey refused to start. Turns out the battery was shot and needed to be repaired at 4 am. Good luck finding a place that sells batteries for a Chevy Venture deep in the heart of Mexico at that hour. One of the interesting things about this situation was seeing members of the team jump into action that haven’t had an opportunity to serve the group in this way before. Andrew and Tony started “rebuilding the engine” while other members of the group stood at a distance making wild speculations at the cause of our delay. We toiled over the battery as the soldiers with the AK-47’s looked on. Although we don’t really know what type of guns they actually were the group standing off at a distance speculated that they must be AK-47’s or sawed off shot guns or something else big, menacing and black. Whatever the case, the soldiers were very understanding and patient while Andrew and Tony did their thing…I’d love to end this journal entry right after that last sentence, it would leave you thinking that we were still stuck in the middle of nowhere with gun yielding soldiers. Phone bills would sky rocket as parents scramble to make international phone bills to whoever they could dream up to rescue this bunch of wild adventurers. At this point I would like to quote a wise man who once wrote “no news is good news.” Some readers of this journal had issues with that quote when it was used a few days ago. We’ll send you more information when we get out of this “jam” which we feel is just another opportunity…