Finally got to Skype with Angela! She is looking good with long hair and her ever present wonderful smile. It’s a little shock to see us cleaned up after we got used to each other with our pilgrim patina on the Camino. Makeup and winter coats throw me off, but I digress. One more digression is that it is summer and bright there south of the equator. Yea, summer. Yea, Angela.

The best thing about Skype is seeing a friend in their environs. And the best thing about Ange’s scene was her Christmas tree still being up. She said that it will probably stay up for a few months. Haha. Why mess with a good thing, right?

So, before going to the Camino to be with us she had quit her job for a newspaper thinking she needed a change. So, now she is in job hunting mode. She looks confident and motivated. That’s the Camino spirit. So we wish her luck with that and I will put a stone on my pile for her to have that thought there. May the Universe conspire for her benefit.

We talked about our film guys Todd, Jessica and Rebecca. She asked about the documentary and how that is coming. It’s a’comin. We talked about Mary Margaret’s visit to our island and the possible appearance of Sheriff here in March. She asked about Kelly and I gave her the Kelly report. We gossiped about all of you but with much love and longing as only pilgrims can do.

She had a little map of the States and I was giving here a geography lesson. Chicago is in that yellow state, LA is there and Seattle is way up there in the corner. And Seattle is in Washinton State which is different than Washington DC. That is a big one I have found with friends outside America is the confusion between the two Washingtons. Well, that is an easy one to straighten out now as the Seattle (Washington State) Seahawks are going to the Super Bowl and the Washington (DC, stands for District of Columbia) Redskins are not. Yea!

Well, I want to wrap this up by saying that I personally want to have the ability to work together like the film crew, be energetic as Mary Margaret, as serving as Sheriff, as caring as Kelly and as brave as Angela. That’s my wish today. Thanks guys for sharing the trail with me and teaching me along the way by just being you.

OK, it’s finally light out and it is a very mysterious looking foggy morning here on the island. Have to get this blog done so I can make spaghetti sauce, recycle our paper and bottles, rebuild the carburetor on the old tractor and run to town for a baguette. A little bit of everything happening today here on Vashon Island. Hope your day goes well, love you, Felipe.