and on and on...

Location at 2110 on Friday...
Latitude: 20 degrees 15.2' N
Longitude: 121 degrees 11.3' W
Course: 96 degrees

We will advance clocks one hour tonight and will be the same as PDT. Hard to believe we will be in our home time zone MDT in a couple of days when we change clocks on the 26th for Guatemala. John and I both got mixed up last night and moved our clocks forward, only to find this morning we had started our day an hour early! This was the last class day -- tomorrow is the Global Studies final and will be followed by a study day on the 26th and the first finals on the 27th. The biggest amount of John's work is done now, since his finals will be machine graded.

Guatemala actually looks like it will be the riskiest port we have had. We were reading the Department of State information http://travel.state.gov/travel/cis_pa_tw/cis/cis_1129.html today (you probably should not read this, Mom!) and I was re-thinking my volcano climb. Since it is a SAS trip with a travel agent that has been used many times, I think it will be fine and I am really looking forward to it. We will arrive in Puerto Quetzal http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Puerto_Quetzal on April 28 and my hike on Pacaya Volcano http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pacaya will be on the 29th.

We have had gray days since leaving Hawaii, and today there was lots of excitement in the faculty lounge when we saw a cargo ship and a few rays of sunshine all at the same time -- you could hear the buzz moving through the room. Funny how little it takes to satisfy! We are all hoping for more sun tomorrow. Temperatures have been in the mid 60's and we have not spent much time on the outside decks. It has been good reading weather though and I am enjoying my latest book.