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  <p class="">🐰: No soy fan de estar standing all the time. Sie gusto el food y wind thingies. </p>





















  
  














































  

    
  
    

      

      
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  <p class="">🐵: Muy chévere llevar a los niños al lugar dónde se escondió Anne Frank y tratar de ponerse en esa situación. Los molinos muy lindos, el Inntel Hotel, y me encantó probar todo tipo de quesos (con ajo, pesto, comino).</p>





















  
  














































  

    
  
    

      

      
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  <p class="">🐹: Was way more fun. Buildings looked really cool and the drinks tasted good. The windmills were the best part.</p>





















  
  














































  

    
  
    

      

      
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  <p class="">🐷: Amsterdam es lo que Bogotá podría ser si se pudiera confiar en el civismo de los que viven en Bogotá.</p>





















  
  














































  

    
  
    

      

      
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        </figure>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Flying West to go East</title><category>Sabbatical 2024</category><dc:creator>Papá</dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 17 Jun 2024 09:31:17 +0000</pubDate><link>https://www.simplebanana.com/blog/flying-west-to-go-east</link><guid isPermaLink="false">5d0288605b23e200010f1282:5d028c11b7dd580001da373d:66700265d8f08a68b06ec2fa</guid><description><![CDATA[SLC ✈️ Seattle ✈️ London ✈️ Amsterdam 🚕 Van Gogh 🖼️]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p class="">🦆: The plane day was kind of tiring and annoying but the next day was fun because we got to go to an art museum and see the difference between home and The Netherlands.</p>





















  
  














































  

    
  
    

      

      
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  <p class="">🐰: Me pareció muy tiring pero me gustó estar en el avión. No me gustó el food.The cockpit was cool</p>





















  
  














































  

    
  
    

      

      
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  <p class="">🐵: Stroopwafels ricos, Coke Zero amarga. La ciudad súper linda, muchas bicicletas! Me encantó el Museo de Van Gogh. Los cuartos del hotel tienen una numeración rara: nuestro cuarto es el 2.42.  El piloto invitó a los niños a la cabina!</p>





















  
  














































  

    
  
    

      

      
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  <p class="">🐹: I absolutely hated flying there. But I have liked The Netherlands weather and sights to see.</p>





















  
  














































  

    
  
    

      

      
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  <p class="">🐷: ¡Qué forma tan enredada de llegar a un museo! Pero nos fue muy bien en cada aeropuerto al final del día largo pudimos dormir lo suficiente para recuperarnos.</p>





















  
  














































  

    
  
    

      

      
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        </figure>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Oklahoma City</title><category>December 2021</category><dc:creator>Papá</dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 23 Dec 2021 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate><link>https://www.simplebanana.com/blog/oklahoma-city</link><guid isPermaLink="false">5d0288605b23e200010f1282:5d028c11b7dd580001da373d:61c8bfad261cdc0b60624860</guid><description><![CDATA[🇨🇴 Una ciudad restaurada. 🇺🇸 A restored city.]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p class="">🇨🇴 En el quinto día de nuestro viaje llegamos a la ciudad de Oklahoma. Usualmente Mommy ha buscado en internet qué sitios se pueden visitar en la parada del día. Los lugares esta vez eran Oklahoma City National Memorial Museum y una pista de hielo junto a los jardines botánicos.</p><p class="">Hay muchos tipos de museos. De arte, de cultura, de ciencia, de historia, etc. Nosotros hemos visitado varios museos de historia y es triste pero importante todo lo que se puede aprender de los eventos súbitos y violentos.</p><p class="">Usualmente una comunidad demuestra cómo honra el valor de la vida humana en respuesta a un acto violento en el que unos pocos decidieron dedicarse a destruir vidas a nombre de una supuesta causa a favor de la cuál no logran nada. Cuando se aprende de estos eventos por lo menos las vidas perdidas asumen más valor. En este caso el evento fue cuando un par de hombres en los noventas destruyeron la mitad de un edificio federal con una bomba, matando a más de ciento cincuenta.</p><p class="">Después del museo almorzamos y fuimos a la pista de hielo que tienen temporalmente junto a los jarines botánicos. Era la única cuadra con gente y movimiento en una ciudad que de otro modo parecía abandonada la mitad del día entre semana; nos imaginamos, por Navidad.</p><p class="">Felizmente salimos de la sesión de patinaje sin accidentes. 🍌</p>


























  <p class="">🇺🇸 On the fifth day of our trip we arrived at Oklahoma City. Usually Mommy has searched online for places to visit on each leg of the trip. This time it would be the Oklahoma City National Memorial Museum and an ice skating rink by the botanical gardens.</p><p class="">There are many types of museums. Art, culture, science, history, etc. We have visited several history museums and what can be learned from sudden and violent events is both sad and important.</p><p class="">Communities usually demonstrate the ways in which they honor human lives in reaction to a violent act during which a few decided to destroy human lives in the name of a supposed cause in favor of which they ultimately accomplish nothing. When lessons are gleaned from these events then at least the lives lost represent a greater value. In this case the event occurred when a couple of men during the 90’s destroyed half of a federal building with a bomb, killing over 150 people.</p><p class="">After the museum we had lunch and went to the ice rink by the botanical gardens. It was the only block in the city that looked lively. The rest of the city seemed abandoned in the middle of a weekday; due to the Christmas holiday, we assume.</p><p class="">We’re glad to have finished this skating session unscathed. 🍌</p>


























  

  



  
    
      

        

        

        
          
            
              
                
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  <p class="">🇺🇸 This stretch of landscape was almost completely flat in every direction and the road was straight. We left New Mexico and spent the entire day traveling towards Oklahoma City. To that end we crossed the north part of Texas, where the weather finally felt like it wasn’t winter anymore.</p><p class="">Instead of geographical features we could see wind turbines from right beside the freeway until the horizon. Well, that and a small frontage road that’s part of the old <a href="https://www.simplebanana.com/blog/tag/Route+66" target="_blank">Route 66</a>. The same which we found a ways back in Missouri and Chicago.</p><p class="">There’s not a lot to tell but we have pictures. If you ever find yourself traveling through Amarillo, TX, visit the crop of Cadillacs at Cadillac Ranch. And bring paint! 🍌</p>


























  

  



  
    
      

        

        

        
          
            
              
                
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  <p class="">🇺🇸 We approached New Mexico’s largest city to the tune of Weird Al Yankovic’s <a href="https://open.spotify.com/track/2Ec0liSMY2h4XORHyzKCmY?si=d2c3e728b5164aad" target="_blank"><em>Albuquerue</em></a>. Along the way we crossed several native jurisdictions, some by the name of <em>pueblos</em>. This word to a Spanish speaker can be ambiguous, so in this case it denotes an autonomous people, rather than a geographical locale.</p><p class="">I don’t know the history that led to the pueblos adopting Spanish vocabulary, but Albuquerque sits by a mountain of the Sandia (Spanish for watermelon) pueblo. We rode the tram to the top, where we had lunch. The visit was shorter than planned because the sudden altitude change caused inner ear pain; and we felt short on energy due to the lack of oxygen. There were pictures taken, nonetheless.</p><p class="">We then went to the National Museum of Nuclear Science and History. Most of the nuclear research in the United States has its roots in New Mexico. This museum has exhibits about most everything related to nuclear energy. In one of the pictures you can see the replica of a sphere that was dropped from a tower in the first nuclear detonation experiment.</p><p class="">In total we drove close to 350 miles.🍌</p>


























  

  



  
    
      

        

        

        
          
            
              
                
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  <p class="">🇺🇸 We slept well in spite of the cold weather. At dawn the car was covered in frost in the middle of the desert. Once we were ready we spent the morning exploring the town of Bluff.</p><p class="">First we went to the Sand Island Petroglyph Panel. There we walked by a wall of rock where the ancient peoples of the area inscribed images over centuries, before European colonization.</p><p class="">We later walked around Bluff Fort. It’s an open-air museum where with pioneer era dwellings. It shows life as it was in what would later be the town of Bluff.</p><p class="">Less than an hour later, due southeast, we had left Utah, spent a few minutes driving in Colorado, and entered New Mexico, finally parking right in front of Arizona. We found ourselves at the Four Corners Monument; a geographic marker.</p><p class="">To complicate things a bit, the marker sits on Navajo Nation lands. It’s the legally agreed upon place where the borders of the states of Arizona, Colorado, New Mexico and Utah meet, and the only such four-state limit in the United States.</p><p class="">From there we drove on to spend the night in Bloomfield, NM. 🍌</p>


























  

  



  
    
      

        

        

        
          
            
              
                
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invierno. 🇺🇸 Until now none of our road trips has taken place during the 
winter.]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p class="">🇨🇴 Hasta ahora ninguno de nuestros paseos por carretera ha sido en invierno. Esta es la primera vez que salimos como familia a recorrer miles de kilómetros mientras que se espera hielo sobre las vías. Sí lo hemos encontrado antes. Pero ha sido por la coincidencia de una tormenta o por la altitud.</p><p class="">Otro aspecto de viajar en invierno es que hay menos horas de luz cada día. Contamos con unas 10, en lugar de las 14 a 16 de los días de verano. El sol brilla desde el sur durante todo su arco. Hoy estuvimos manejando hacia el sur. No me gusta manejar con gafas oscuras, pero esta vez fue inevitable.</p><p class="">El paso de montaña de Utah County hacia Price tiene muchas curvas y hay que planear bien dónde pasar carros, tanto subiendo como bajando. Con la posibilidad de hielo todas las deciciones se complican un poco más.</p><p class="">Andamos en el mismo Discovery 2018 en el que hemos hecho nuestros viajes largos. Ya tiene más de cien mil kilómetros y es difícil de ignorar que en un viaje de estos se le pone a prueba todo el tiempo. Esperamos que se porte tan bien como lo ha hecho hasta ahora.</p><p class="">Almorzamos en el Outlaw Cafe, en Wellington, Utah. Nos gustaron las fotos e historias de bandidos del viejo oeste que decoraban las paredes. Por la noche comimos en el Granary Bar &amp; Grill, en Monticello. Queda en un pequeño hotel en un granero antiguo, lleno de decoraciones históricas.</p><p class="">Finalmente llegamos a nuestra cabaña en Bluff Gardens, en pleno centro de Bluff, Utah. La cabaña fue muy cómoda, excepto por que el agua fría del baño no fluía. El frío reciente había congelado la tubería que alimentaba la cabaña, entonces tuvimos que improvisar con agua de la cocina. 🍌</p>


























  <p class="">🇺🇸 Until now none of our road trips has taken place during the winter. This is the first time we set out as a family to drive thousands of miles with the expectation of icy roads. We’ve had icy roads before. But it was coincidentally, due to a storm or high altitude.</p><p class="">Another detail about winter travel is fewer daylight hours. We get around 10 instead of the 14 to 16 of summer days. The sun shines from the south during the length of its arc. Today, we drove southbound. I don’t like wearing shades when I drive, but it was inevitable this time.</p><p class="">The mountain pass from Utah County to Price has winding roads and it takes some planning to pass other vehicles, both during the climb and the descent. The possibility of ice on the road complicates things a bit.</p><p class="">We’re driving the same 2018 Discovery from all our long road trips. It now has more than 65k miles on it and it’s difficult to ignore that on a trip like this one we put it to the test constantly. We hope it performs as it has until now.</p><p class="">We had lunch at the Outlaw Cafe in Wellington, Utah. We liked the pictures and stories about the old west bandits that decorated the walls. At night we had dinner at the Granary Bar &amp; Grill, in Monticello. It’s part of a bed and breakfast in an old granary filled with historical decor.</p><p class="">Finally, we arrived at our cabin at Bluff Gardens, right in the center of Bluff, Utah. The cabin was very comfortable, except that due to the very cold temperatures the cold water pipes to the bathroom had frozen. We had to improvise with water from the kitchen. 🍌</p>


























  

  



  
    
      

        

        

        
          
            
              
                
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🇺🇸 We found the home of an old west outlaw.]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p class="">🇨🇴 El objectivo del día era llegar a Ruby’s Inn, donde teníamos la siguiente reservación para pasar la noche. La distancia a recorrer era 270 kilómetros por montaña. Esa distancia no presenta ningún problema en un viaje por carretera convencional. Pero durante nuestro <a href="https://www.simplebanana.com/blog/primera-remolcada-first-time-towing">primer tramo</a> descubrimos que nuestro remolque no estaba en las mejores condiciones para los 130 km/h que permite la carretera interestatal. Eso nos dió la excusa perfecta para conocer lo que se encuentra por las carreteras del estado, que no permiten andar a más de 100km/h.</p><p class="">Una sorpresa que encontramos por el recorrido fue la casa donde creció el ínfame Butch Cassidy en los 1860s, cerca de Circleville, Utah. Es la primera vez que visitamos una casa de esa época en Utah que no perteneció a la familia de un líder de la Iglesia de Jesucristo de los Santos de los Últimos Días. Al parecer todos esos contemporáneos pasaron su niñez en cabañas muy similares.</p>


























  <p class="">🇺🇸 The day’s objective was to reach Ruby’s Inn, where we had the next reservation to spend the night. It was 167 miles away by mountain roads. That distance wouldn’t have meant much during a typical road trip. But during our <a href="https://www.simplebanana.com/blog/primera-remolcada-first-time-towing">first day</a> we discovered that our trailer wasn’t set up right for the 80 mi/hr speed limits of the interstate. That gave us an excuse to get to know the state roads a little better, since they don’t exceed 60 mi/hr.</p><p class="">A feature we found along the way was the home where the infamous Butch Cassidy grew up during the 1860’s, close to Circleville, Utah. It’s the first time that we visit a house of that period in Utah that didn’t belong to the family of a leader of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Apparently all those contemporary characters spent their childhoods in very similarly styled cabins.</p>


























  

  



  
    
      

        

        

        
          
            
              
                
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  <p class="">🇨🇴 De ahí continuamos hacia el sur y paramos para almorzar pero por la pandemia el restaurante no tenía mesas y todo lo vendían para llevar; entonces almorzamos dentro del remolque. Luego la carretera nos llevó un poco hacia el oriente a través de unas formaciones de roca roja parecidas a las que se ven por Moab, Utah. Para alguien que conoce la región el color del paisaje hubiera sido una pista obvia de que nos acercábamos a Bryce Canyon National Park. Ruby’s Inn queda justo a la entrada.</p>


























  <p class="">🇺🇸 From there we continued south and we stopped for lunch but the restaurant was only selling food to-go due to the pandemic; so we ate in the RV. Then the road turned eastward through some red rock formations similar to those found in Moab, Utah. This would have been a pretty obvious clue to someone familiar with the region that we were closing in on Bryce Canyon National Park. Ruby’s Inn is just by the entrance.</p>


























  

  



  
    
      

        

        

        
          
            
              
                
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🇺🇸 Some insight into the trailer.]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p class="">🇨🇴 En este parque—le dicen <em>parque</em> a estos sitios donde uno puede acampar con estos remolques—pasamos las primeras dos noches. Queríamos suficiente tiempo para conocer el remolque. Y fue el fin de semana de la <a href="https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/?lang=spa" target="_blank">Conferencia General</a>. Entonces estuvimos escuchando por radio adentro y afuera mientras los niños jugaban.</p><p class="">Es más fácil mostrar en qué consistía lo que fue nuestro hogar por diez días y nueve noches. Hay explicaciones al pie de la mayoría de las fotos, y unos comentarios al final.</p><p class=""><strong>Nota: </strong>Parece que el texto de las fotos no aparece en teléfonos en modo vertical.</p>


























  <p class="">🇺🇸 We spent the first two nights at this RV park. We wanted enough time to get to know the RV. It also happened to be <a href="https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/?lang=eng" target="_blank">General Conference</a> weekend. So we played it from the radio on the speakers inside and out while the kids played.</p><p class="">It’s easier to show our ten-day, nine-night accommodations. There are captions on most pictures and some comments at the end.</p><p class=""><strong>Note:</strong> It seems that the picture captions don’t work on phones in portrait mode.</p>


























  

  



  
    
      

        
          
            
              
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                      <p class="">🇨🇴 Actividad de pascua</p><p class="">🇺🇸 Easter Activity</p>
                    
                  
                
              
              
            
          
          
        

        

        

      

        
          
            
              
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                      <p class="">🇨🇴 Baño con ducha</p><p class="">🇺🇸 Bathroom with shower</p>
                    
                  
                
              
              
            
          
          
        

        

        

      

        
          
            
              
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                      <p class="">🇨🇴 Cuarto principal</p><p class="">🇺🇸 Master bedroom</p>
                    
                  
                
              
              
            
          
          
        

        

        

      

        
          
            
              
                <img class="thumb-image" elementtiming="system-gallery-block-slideshow" data-image="https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d0288605b23e200010f1282/1618888176992-V2LKISV6BOWH1SL82QAP/PXL_20210404_013404297.jpg" data-image-dimensions="2500x1875" data-image-focal-point="0.5,0.5" alt=" 🇨🇴 El sitio donde parqueamos la primera noche tenía un juego que parece tejo. Pero no hay “mecha”.  🇺🇸 Corn hole was among the RV park’s amenities. " data-load="false" data-image-id="607e45e5be8ee37f86fec266" data-type="image" src="https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d0288605b23e200010f1282/1618888176992-V2LKISV6BOWH1SL82QAP/PXL_20210404_013404297.jpg?format=1000w" /><br>
              

              
                
                  
                  
                    
                      
                      <p class="">🇨🇴 El sitio donde parqueamos la primera noche tenía un juego que parece tejo. Pero no hay “mecha”.</p><p class="">🇺🇸 Corn hole was among the RV park’s amenities.</p>
                    
                  
                
              
              
            
          
          
        

        

        

      

        
          
            
              
                <img class="thumb-image" elementtiming="system-gallery-block-slideshow" data-image="https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d0288605b23e200010f1282/1618888182475-YZ4NTZ77W2D1MXYFCSS6/PXL_20210404_015626713.jpg" data-image-dimensions="2500x3333" data-image-focal-point="0.5,0.5" alt=" 🇨🇴 También había herradura.  🇺🇸 There was also horseshoe. " data-load="false" data-image-id="607e45f1334bdf79b9b7a942" data-type="image" src="https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d0288605b23e200010f1282/1618888182475-YZ4NTZ77W2D1MXYFCSS6/PXL_20210404_015626713.jpg?format=1000w" /><br>
              

              
                
                  
                  
                    
                      
                      <p class="">🇨🇴 También había herradura.</p><p class="">🇺🇸 There was also horseshoe.</p>
                    
                  
                
              
              
            
          
          
        

        

        

      

        
          
            
              
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                      <p class="">🇨🇴 Estos tanques estaban detrás de una tienda. No nos dejaron llevárnoslos.</p><p class="">🇺🇸 These were behind a store. They wouldn’t let us take them with us.</p>
                    
                  
                
              
              
            
          
          
        

        

        

      
    
  

  
    
    
    
      
      
        
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  <h2>🇨🇴 Cosas que aprendimos</h2><h3>Electricidad</h3><p class="">El remolque tenía unas baterías y un cable para una conexión de 30 amperios. La única diferencia notoria entre estar conectados o desconectados era que el microondas no funcionaba solamente con las baterías. Nunca estuvimos desconectados lo suficiente como para saber cuánto se demoran en descargar completamente las baterías.</p><p class="">La aplicación más obvia de la electricidad en el remolque son las luces y las tomas de corriente. La bomba de agua era muy útil. No tuvimos que usar el aire acondicionado.</p><p class="">En la parte de atrás del remolque había un generador eléctrico a gasolina. Es ruidoso y nunca tuvimos que usarlo porque en todos los sitios donde acampamos teníamos conexión eléctrica.</p><h3>Gas</h3><p class="">El remolque tenía dos tanques de propano (total 40 galones). Consumimos un total de cuatro galones en todo el viaje. El propano se usaba para la estufa, el horno, la calefacción, el calentador de agua y la nevera. Sí, la nevera.</p><p class="">La nevera y el calentador de agua podían funcionar con electricidad. Pero si no estábamos conectados a una fuente de electricidad, eran formas fáciles de quedar sin batería.</p><h3>Agua</h3><p class="">El remolque contaba con un tanque de agua fresca. Como queda al frente del remolque, cuando estaba lleno hacía más estable la manejada. Para usar el agua del tanque se encendía una bomba eléctrica. La nuestra tenía una fuga, entonces hacía más ruido de lo normal.</p><p class="">Afortunadamente lo más común era dejar el tanque lleno, la bomba apagada, y conectar el remolque al agua presurizada donde pasábamos la noche.</p><p class="">También había otros tres tanques. Uno de <em>aguas grises</em> que recolectaba el agua de la ducha y el lavamanos. Otro, también de aguas grises, que recolectaba el agua del lavaplatos. Y, finalmente, el de aguas negras. El cuento con estos tanques era desocuparlos. Se llenaban rápido.</p>


























  <h2>🇺🇸 Things We Learned</h2><p class="">Alright. This section may not make sense to veterans. But to people from outside the US, or who have never dealt with a camping trailer, this is uncharted territory. Bear with me.</p><h3>Electricity</h3><p class="">The trailer was equipped with batteries and a cable for a 30 amp connection. The only noticeable difference between being connected or disconnected was that the microwave didn’t run on battery power. We were never disconnected for long enough to find out how long a full charge lasts.</p><p class="">The most obvious use of electricity were lights and power outlets. The water pump was very useful. We never used the air conditioning.</p><p class="">At the back of the trailer there was a power generator that ran on gas. It’s noisy and we never had to use it because we always had shore power where we stayed the night.</p><h3>Gas</h3><p class="">The trailer had two propane tanks (total 40 gallons). We consumed a grand total of four gallons during the trip. The propane ran the stove, the oven, the heating, the water heater, and the fridge.</p><p class="">The fridge and the water heater could run on electricity. But if we weren’t connected to a power source they would have sucked the batteries dry.</p><h3>Water</h3><p class="">There was a fresh water tank on the trailer. Since it was at the front, having it full made for more stable towing. To use water from the tank we had to turn on an electric pump. Ours was leaky, so it was noisier than it should have been.</p><p class="">Fortunately it was common for us to just leave the full tank alone, and hook up to a pressurized water source wherever we spent the night.</p><p class="">There were other three tanks. A grey water tank for shower and bathroom sink water; another grey water tank for kitchen sink water; and, finally, a black water tank. These had to be emptied more often than I would have liked.</p>]]></content:encoded><media:content type="image/jpeg" url="https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d0288605b23e200010f1282/1618887685925-A6TFKOKM1SNP97RVRSDW/PXL_20210403_223443700.jpg?format=1500w" medium="image" isDefault="true" width="1500" height="1125"><media:title type="plain"> Tour del remolque/ Trailer Tour</media:title></media:content></item><item><title> Primera Remolcada/ First Time Towing</title><category>Spring Break 2021</category><dc:creator>Papá</dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 02 Apr 2021 18:00:00 +0000</pubDate><link>https://www.simplebanana.com/blog/primera-remolcada-first-time-towing</link><guid isPermaLink="false">5d0288605b23e200010f1282:5d028c11b7dd580001da373d:606df35182ce5a2273f699ca</guid><description><![CDATA[🇨🇴 ¡No me imaginé que la dinámica de manejar cambiara tanto!

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  <p class="">🇨🇴 Esto es algo nuevo para toda nuestra familia. Hemos acampado en carpas, hecho viajes de carretera de miles de kilómetros, y hemos ido a ver estos <em>carro-casas</em> o <em>autocaravanas,</em> como algunos diccionarios parecen llamarlas. Casi no existen en Colombia, entonces realmente no necesitan nombre ahí. Llámense como se llamen, nunca habíamos interactuado con una más que en un concesionario. Hasta hoy.</p><p class="">El dueño la (lo?) trajo al frente de nuestra casa con una camioneta de platón, nos dio el tour, y nos ayudó a conectarla al Discovery. Esto no fue un alquiler a ciegas. Cuando escogimos el remolque queríamos algo donde cupiéramos los cinco y que pudiéramos remolcar. Land Rover dice que este Discovery puede remolcar hasta 7000 libras y el remolque aparecía listado como de 6400 lb. Le di dos vueltas a la cuadra y todo se sentía en orden.</p><p class="">Este paseo era diferente porque no empacamos mucho en maletas. Simplemente llenamos el remolque con ropa y cosas de baño y cocina. La emoción lo hizo parecer fácil y pronto estuvimos listos para salir.</p><p class="">No sé cómo describir el comportamiento del remolque durante los primeros kilómetros andando como a 60km/h con un término diferente a <em>rebotar.</em> Si alguien quiere los detalles me puede preguntar. El resumen es que el peso del remolque no estaba <a href="https://youtu.be/6mW_gzdh6to">equilibrado</a>, y el pánico que inducía al manejar tenía su razón.</p><p class="">Por suerte fuimos cuidadosos con nuestro plan y la primera noche la pasamos en un parque de autocaravanas a unos 100km de la casa. Entonces nos tomamos nuestro tiempo y llegamos vivos.</p>


























  <p class="">🇺🇸 This is something new for our family. We’ve camped in tents, been on road trips several thousands of miles long, and we’ve gone shopping for RV trailers. Incidentally, these things aren’t commonly found in Colombia, so there’s not a consensus on what to call them there. Whatever the name, we’d never interacted with one outside a dealership. Until today.</p><p class="">The owner dropped it off at our house in a pickup truck, gave us the tour, and helped us hitch it to the Discovery. This wasn’t a blind rental. When we chose the trailer we wanted something that would fit all five and that the vehicle could tow. Land Rover says this Discovery can tow up to 7000 lb, and the trailer was listed at 6400 lb. I took it a couple of times around the block and everything felt right.</p><p class="">This trip was different also in that we didn’t pack much in terms of luggage. We simply filled the trailer with clothes and bath and kitchen stuff. The excitement made the time fly and we were soon ready to depart.</p><p class="">I think <em>bouncy</em> best describes the trailer’s behavior during the first few miles at about 40 mph. If anyone wants the details, feel free to ask me. The short of it is that the trailer wasn’t <a href="https://youtu.be/6mW_gzdh6to">balanced</a>, and the panic it induced was justified.</p><p class="">Luckily we’d planned for the first drive to be short, spending the night at an RV park about 60 miles away. So we took our time and made it there safely.</p>]]></content:encoded><media:content type="image/jpeg" url="https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d0288605b23e200010f1282/1618292381247-87AZQ3WKRJGPEYHL65EE/PXL_20210403_010718501.jpg?format=1500w" medium="image" isDefault="true" width="1500" height="1125"><media:title type="plain"> Primera Remolcada/ First Time Towing</media:title></media:content></item><item><title>Snow and Falls</title><category>Wyoming 2020</category><dc:creator>Papá</dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 16 Oct 2020 06:16:53 +0000</pubDate><link>https://www.simplebanana.com/blog/0qvakes5ecssell4q1h9b787cmcemt</link><guid isPermaLink="false">5d0288605b23e200010f1282:5d028c11b7dd580001da373d:5f8938cb04e7d76683dbd4fc</guid><description><![CDATA[]]></description><media:content type="image/jpeg" url="https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d0288605b23e200010f1282/1602828657620-HR7WNT4RQEYOLDHRU3I5/PXL_20201015_221944083%7E2_exported_55608_1602828464998.jpg?format=1500w" medium="image" isDefault="true" width="720" height="1280"><media:title type="plain">Snow and Falls</media:title></media:content></item><item><title>Rosie’s Pizzeria and Sports Bar</title><category>Wyoming 2020</category><dc:creator>Papá</dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 15 Oct 2020 15:47:02 +0000</pubDate><link>https://www.simplebanana.com/blog/rosies-pizzeria-diamondville</link><guid isPermaLink="false">5d0288605b23e200010f1282:5d028c11b7dd580001da373d:5f8790ccf0dff6396be888e7</guid><description><![CDATA[🇨🇴 ¡Lo mejor fue las caras de los niños al entrar al bar!

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  <p class="">🇨🇴 Parte de lo que nos gusta de viajar es exponer a los niños a nuevas experiencias. Es fácil parar en los restaurantes de siempre cuando pasamos por ciudades grandes, pero la cosa es diferente cuando las opciones se limitan a lo que hay por el camino a la hora de comer. Este fue uno de esos casos.</p><p class="">La hora de la comida llegó cuando pasamos por Diamondville, WY, un pueblo de menos de 1000 habitantes. Google recomendó <em>Rosie’s Pizzeria and Sports Bar</em> y la encontramos al lado de un parque sobre una calle limitada a 20 millas por hora. Desde afuera era un bar de película.</p><p class="">Yo entré para asegurarme que sí había algo más que solamente un bar adentro. La parte de atrás es un restaurante familiar a pesar de lo que la fachada muestra. Pero cuando volví al carro les dije que se prepararan para algo nuevo y que no teníamos otra opción. Las reacciones de curiosidad y un poco de tensión valieron la pena. Cuando entraron se rieron porque el sitio era mucho más amigable de lo que se esperaba. La comida y los precios también.</p><p class="">Lo otro memorable de la tarde fue que estaba haciendo viento frío. Cuando comenzamos el viaje hacía unos 21°C, y ahora un viento fuerte de 3°C. Eso hizo que posar para la foto a la salida fuera todo un esfuerzo.</p>


























  <p class="">🇺🇸 Part of what we like about traveling is exposing the children to new experiences. It’s easy to visit the same old favorite restaurants as we go through big cities, but things are different when the road dictates what’s available at meal times. This was one such case.</p><p class="">Dinner time arrived as we drove through Diamondville, WY, a town of fewer than 1000. Google recommended <em>Rosie’s Pizzeria and Sports Bar</em>, which we found by a playground on a 20-mile-per-hour street. It looked like a small-town bar straight from the movies.</p><p class="">I went in to ensure that there was more than just a bar inside. The back part was a family restaurant, in spite of what the storefront revealed—or rather, didn’t. But when I returned to the car I told them to prepare for something new and that we had no other choice. Their faces of curiosity and a little tension were well worth it. Once inside they chuckled because the place was much friendlier than expected. The food and prices were friendly too.</p><p class="">The other memorable item of the afternoon was the cold wind. We started the trip at 70F, but stepping out of the restaurant was a chilly 39F. That made standing still for the picture quite an effort.</p>]]></content:encoded><media:content type="image/jpeg" url="https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d0288605b23e200010f1282/1602772199260-4NI56RZKZRWH4ZUIUHKC/processed_PXL_20201015_011319423.NIGHT.jpg?format=1500w" medium="image" isDefault="true" width="1500" height="2000"><media:title type="plain">Rosie’s Pizzeria and Sports Bar</media:title></media:content></item><item><title>¿Por qué ayunamos y no hiciste caso?</title><category>Letters</category><dc:creator>Papá</dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 10 Apr 2020 06:29:00 +0000</pubDate><link>https://www.simplebanana.com/blog/aprendiendo-a-ayunar</link><guid isPermaLink="false">5d0288605b23e200010f1282:5d028c11b7dd580001da373d:5e8f9f39ff03b85c06a7b198</guid><description><![CDATA[En vista de queda mucho trabajo por hacer en cada nivel de la sociedad para 
que todos nos recuperemos de los efectos directos e indirectos de este 
virus, no sería sorprendente que alguien en sus oraciones preguntara “¿Por 
qué ayunamos y no hiciste caso?"]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p class="">Querida familia y amigos,</p><p class="">Hace dos semanas les extendimos una <a href="https://www.simplebanana.com/blog/invitacion-covid-19" target="_blank">invitación</a> a que nos acompañaran en un ayuno mundial para pedir alivio de la pandemia. Estamos muy agradecidos por su compañía y por los milagros que hemos visto como resultado. Aún queda mucho trabajo por hacer en cada nivel de la sociedad para que todos nos recuperemos de los efectos directos e indirectos de este virus. En vista de esto no sería sorprendente que alguien en sus oraciones preguntara <strong>“¿Por qué ayunamos y no hiciste caso?"</strong></p><p class="">Si han hecho una pregunta como esa en sus oraciones pueden aprovechar unos versículos que incluimos. Si prefieren saltar directamente la invitación que hacemos en esta carta, simplemente vayan al <a href="#footerWrapper">final</a> de ella.</p>























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  <h2>La pregunta</h2>


























  <p class="">Isaías, en el <a href="https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/scriptures/ot/isa/58?lang=spa" target="_blank">capítulo 58</a>, escribió muy concretamente acerca del ayuno. Al leer lo que Dios reveló a su profeta es importante recordar que su lenguaje fuerte no es un regaño, sino un llamado a ser mejores para obtener mejores resultados. También es muy fácil leerlo como algo que aplica solamente a los demás, pero hay algo para cada uno de nosotros en esas palabras.</p><p class="">El énfasis es añadido.</p>


























  <blockquote><p class=""><strong>2&nbsp;</strong>Pues me&nbsp;buscan&nbsp;cada día y quieren saber mis caminos, como nación que hubiese hecho justicia y que no hubiese dejado la ley de su Dios; me piden&nbsp;juicios&nbsp;justos y quieren acercarse a Dios.</p><p class=""><strong>3&nbsp;</strong>Dicen: <strong>¿Por qué ayunamos y no hiciste caso; humillamos nuestras almas, y no te diste por entendido?</strong> He aquí que en el día de vuestro ayuno buscáis vuestro propio gusto y&nbsp;oprimís&nbsp;a vuestros trabajadores.</p><p class=""><strong>4&nbsp;</strong>He aquí que para contiendas y debates&nbsp;ayunáis&nbsp;y para herir con el puño de iniquidad; no&nbsp;ayunéis&nbsp;como lo hacéis hoy, para que vuestra voz sea oída en lo alto.</p><p class=""><strong>5&nbsp;</strong>¿Es este el ayuno que yo escogí, un día en que el hombre aflija su alma, en que encorve su cabeza como junco y haga cama de cilicio y de ceniza? ¿Llamaréis esto ayuno y día agradable a Jehová?</p></blockquote>























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  <h2>La respuesta</h2>


























  <p class="">Es común buscar nuestro “propio gusto” o hablar de cómo el comportamiento de otros nos encorva la “cabeza como junco”. <em>Te pido que [vecino] se quede en su casa como yo lo hago. Te ruego que [político] deje de robarnos en plena pandemia. ¿Si ven? ¡[Conocido desempleado] no ahorró como yo y ahora se queja en Facebook! ¿Ahora sí me creen que hubiera sido mejor haber votado por [el otro]?</em></p><p class="">Muy posiblemente tengamos algo de razón en sentirnos así, pero si realmente buscamos Sus caminos debemos hacer las cosas a Su manera.</p>


























  <blockquote><p class=""><strong>6&nbsp;</strong>¿No es más bien el&nbsp;ayuno&nbsp;que yo escogí: desatar las ligaduras de la maldad,&nbsp;soltar&nbsp;las cargas de opresión, y dejar libres a los quebrantados y romper todo yugo?</p><p class=""><strong>7&nbsp;</strong>¿No consiste en que&nbsp;compartas&nbsp;tu pan con el hambriento y a los&nbsp;pobres&nbsp;errantes alojes en tu casa; en que cuando veas al desnudo, lo cubras y no te escondas del que es&nbsp;tu propia carne?</p></blockquote>























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  <h2>La promesa</h2>


























  <p class="">¿Qué tal salir del ayuno habiendo pedido perdón y habiendo perdonado? ¿Qué tal haber olvidado lo que los demás hicieron o dejaron de hacer mientras nos ocupamos de servir a los demás como aún no lo hemos intentado? Si obedecemos, esto es lo que Él nos promete:</p>


























  <blockquote><p class=""><strong>8&nbsp;</strong>Entonces nacerá tu&nbsp;luz&nbsp;como el alba, <strong>y tu&nbsp;salud&nbsp;se manifestará pronto</strong>; e irá tu rectitud delante de ti, y la gloria de Jehová será tu retaguardia.</p><p class=""><strong>9&nbsp;</strong>Entonces&nbsp;invocarás, y te responderá Jehová; clamarás, y dirá él: Heme aquí. Si quitas de en medio de ti el yugo, el&nbsp;señalar&nbsp;con el dedo y el hablar vanidad;</p><p class=""><strong>10&nbsp;</strong>y si extiendes tu alma al&nbsp;hambriento&nbsp;y sacias al alma afligida, en las tinieblas nacerá tu luz, y tu oscuridad será como el mediodía;</p><p class=""><strong>11&nbsp;</strong>y Jehová te&nbsp;guiará&nbsp;siempre, y en las&nbsp;sequías&nbsp;saciará tu alma y dará vigor a tus huesos; y serás como huerto de riego y como&nbsp;manantial&nbsp;cuyas aguas nunca faltan.</p><p class=""><strong>12&nbsp;</strong>Y los tuyos edificarán las ruinas antiguas; los cimientos de generación en generación levantarás; y serás llamado reparador de brechas, restaurador de calzadas para habitar.</p></blockquote>


























  <p class="">Definitivamente necesitamos que nuestra salud se manifieste pronto. Lo que se nos pide a cambio es aprovechar el ayuno para ser más como Él quiere que seamos. Se nos pide pensar y actuar en formas diferentes en lugar de esperar a que otros lo hagan.</p>























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  <h2>La invitación</h2><p class="">Hemos recibido una nueva invitación a ayunar, esta vez un poco más específica. Queremos compartirla de nuevo y unirnos a ella.</p><blockquote><p class="">“Invito a todos, incluso a los que no sean de nuestra religión, <strong>a ayunar y orar este Viernes Santo, el 10 de abril,</strong> para que la pandemia actual se pueda controlar, los profesionales de la salud sean protegidos, se fortalezca la economía y la vida se normalice.”</p><p class="">— <a href="https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/church/news/president-nelson-asks-latter-day-saints-to-unite-our-faith-once-again-in-fast-on-good-friday?lang=spa" target="_blank">Russell M. Nelson</a></p></blockquote><p class="">¿Cómo? Es un ayuno igual al que describimos en nuestra <a href="https://www.simplebanana.com/blog/invitacion-covid-19" target="_blank">carta anterior</a>.</p><p class="">¿Nos acompañan de nuevo?</p><p class="">Familia Rodríguez Congote</p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>¿Qué más podemos hacer contra el covid-19, si ya lo estamos haciendo todo?</title><category>Letters</category><dc:creator>Papá</dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 28 Mar 2020 05:34:00 +0000</pubDate><link>https://www.simplebanana.com/blog/invitacion-covid-19</link><guid isPermaLink="false">5d0288605b23e200010f1282:5d028c11b7dd580001da373d:5e7ecd71b042e9754b4a5fa8</guid><description><![CDATA[Sabemos que cada uno de ustedes está dando lo mejor de sí en solidaridad. 
Queremos invitarlos a hacer una cosa más.]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p class="">Querida familia y amigos,</p><p class="">Con ustedes, estamos buscando formas de ser solidarios en combatir el virus de acuerdo con nuestras habilidades y circunstancias. Sabemos que, si bien nuestras propias vidas no están en peligro inmediato, nuestras decisiones tienen un efecto exponencial sobre la salud de todos. También sabemos que cada uno de ustedes está dando lo mejor de sí en solidaridad.</p><p class="">Esta es una situación que nos une en recordar, ante todo, el valor de la vida humana. Hoy les hacemos una invitación de acuerdo con el conocimiento y la fe en Dios, que hemos heredado de nuestros padres y abuelos. Ese Dios nos enseña acerca del valor de nuestro semejante, cuando dice</p><blockquote><p class=""><strong>37&nbsp;</strong>[…]&nbsp;Amarás&nbsp;al Señor tu Dios con todo tu&nbsp;corazón, y con toda tu alma y con toda tu mente.</p><p class=""><strong>38&nbsp;</strong>Este es el primero y grande mandamiento.</p><p class=""><strong>39&nbsp;</strong>Y el segundo es semejante a este:&nbsp;Amarás&nbsp;a tu prójimo como a ti mismo.</p><p class="">— Mateo 22</p></blockquote><p class="">Cada vez que nuestro Salvador buscó fortaleza para enfrentar algo particularmente difícil <a href="https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/search?facet=scriptures&amp;highlight=true&amp;lang=spa&amp;page=1&amp;query=ayuno&amp;subfacet=nt" target="_blank">acudió al ayuno</a>. Asimismo lo hizo el Pueblo de Israel en <a href="https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/search?facet=scriptures&amp;highlight=true&amp;lang=spa&amp;page=1&amp;query=ayuno&amp;subfacet=ot" target="_blank">varias ocasiones</a>. Entonces, así como ahora, el resultado dependía de buscar la ayuda divina de una forma que suplica al cielo más poderosamente que la sola oración.</p><p class="">El ayuno consiste en dejar a un lado el alimento en señal de humildad. Esto se hace temporalmente y con prudencia para que no afecte negativamente la salud. No es una dieta y no se hace buscando adulación. El tiempo que se ayuna se dedica a Dios comenzando y terminando con una oración sincera. Ese tiempo se emplea en actos que demuestran dedicación a lo que se pide. Si pedimos aliviar al mundo de este virus hacemos lo que humanamente podemos para que esto suceda. Finalmente, el valor de los alimentos que no consumimos se dona a personas necesitadas.</p><p class=""><strong>Este sábado, 28 de marzo, después del almuerzo comenzaremos un ayuno y les invitamos a que nos acompañen según su circunstancias lo permitan.</strong> Los adultos planeamos concluirlo almorzando el domingo y los niños desayunando el domingo. No les preguntaremos si lo hicieron, porque eso es entre ustedes y Dios, pero nos alegra su participación. Con ustedes habrá millones de personas en todo el mundo ayunando por la misma causa.</p><p class="">Gracias por todo lo que están haciendo por nuestro prójimo. Invoquemos la ayuda divina con humildad para que logre lo que no podemos lograr solos. Confiemos en que recibiremos de un Dios que nos ama lo que Él sabe que necesitamos, aunque nosotros mismos no lo sepamos.</p><p class="">Un abrazo a una distancia responsable,</p><p class="">Familia Rodríguez Congote</p>]]></content:encoded><media:content type="image/jpeg" url="https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d0288605b23e200010f1282/1585372929429-80MSXIGAYOHUVNUDEJTH/image-asset.jpeg?format=1500w" medium="image" isDefault="true" width="1500" height="2250"><media:title type="plain">¿Qué más podemos hacer contra el covid-19, si ya lo estamos haciendo todo?</media:title></media:content></item><item><title> Resumen del sabático 2019/ Summary of Sabbatical 2019</title><category>Sabbatical 2019</category><dc:creator>Papá</dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 06 Aug 2019 19:10:47 +0000</pubDate><link>https://www.simplebanana.com/blog/9s4hoy6r99ol4jtzvwuyjv4cu1jw92</link><guid isPermaLink="false">5d0288605b23e200010f1282:5d028c11b7dd580001da373d:5d48b443d5ac040001abcbe2</guid><description><![CDATA[🇨🇴 Hicimos esta página con enlaces a lo que hicimos cada día y con las 
estadísticas finales del viaje. También hay una sección de agradecimientos.

🇺🇸 We made this page with links to what we did each day and with the 
final stats of the trip. There’s also a Thank You section.]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p class=""><a href="https://www.simplebanana.com/sab-2019">https://www.simplebanana.com/sab-2019</a></p>


























  <p class="">🇨🇴 Hicimos <a href="https://www.simplebanana.com/sab-2019">esta</a> página con enlaces a lo que hicimos cada día y con las estadísticas finales del viaje. También hay una sección de agradecimientos.</p>


























  <p class="">🇺🇸 We made <a href="https://www.simplebanana.com/sab-2019">this</a> page with links to what we did each day and with the final stats of the trip. There’s also a <em>Thank You</em> section.</p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title> Quinta Semana/ Fifth Week</title><category>Sabbatical 2019</category><category>Sabbatical 2019 Trip Summary</category><dc:creator>Papá</dc:creator><pubDate>Sun, 04 Aug 2019 12:00:00 +0000</pubDate><link>https://www.simplebanana.com/blog/-quinta-semana-fifth-week</link><guid isPermaLink="false">5d0288605b23e200010f1282:5d028c11b7dd580001da373d:5d4624f7b17678000103e99e</guid><description><![CDATA[🇨🇴 Resumen semanal

🇺🇸 Weekly Summary]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<h1>27:34</h1><p class="">hr</p>


























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  <p class="">🇨🇴 Nota: En julio 27 montamos en metro en Chicago.</p><p class="">🇺🇸 Note: On the 27th we rode the metro in Chicago.</p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title> Sendero de pioneros/ Pioneer Trail</title><category>Sabbatical 2019</category><dc:creator>Papá</dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 03 Aug 2019 23:20:53 +0000</pubDate><link>https://www.simplebanana.com/blog/-sendero-de-pioneros-pioneer-trail</link><guid isPermaLink="false">5d0288605b23e200010f1282:5d028c11b7dd580001da373d:5d46022ed73cd50001197964</guid><description><![CDATA[🇨🇴 Prácticamente ninguna familia llegó sin que alguno de sus miembros 
falleciera por el camino, algunos de hambre.

🇺🇸 Practically no family arrived without one of their members dying along 
the way, some of starvation.]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<a data-title="" data-description="" data-lightbox-theme="dark" href="https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d0288605b23e200010f1282/1564874005365-TY294COGDRCRHU3A6QKP/IMG_20190801_133434.jpg" role="button" aria-label="" class="
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  <p class="">🇨🇴 El recorrido del día comenzó prácticamente como todos los otros. Desayuno, jugar Tetris con las maletas, diesel, Red Bull, carretera. Atravezamos la pequeña ciudad de Casper, Wyoming, y diez minutos más tarde estábamos avanzando de nuevo por una carretera sin tráfico en la mitad de la nada. Seguíamos buscando con menos esperanza las placas de Hawaii y de Louisiana, y compitiendo para ver qué equipo encontraba el mayor número de Jeep Wranglers por el camino.</p><p class="">La diferencia fue que ahora el GPS decía que la casa quedaba a seis horas y media, entonces teníamos una mezcla de emociones que nos distrajo un poco de la carretera por el resto del día. Era el último de 34 días fuera de casa. Sonaba emocionante la idea de llegar y de descansar del viaje, pero no queríamos que terminara ese tiempo en familia de exploración y aprendizaje. Solo nos quedaba un sitio nuevo por conocer.</p><p class="">El Sitio Histórico Mormón de Carros de Mano queda sobre el sendero Pony Express. Antes del Internet, aviones, FedEx, vías pavimentadas, el ferrocarril transcontinental, o el telégrafo, ese camino era la vía por la que cientos de mensajeros a caballo llevaban correo y noticias del Atlántico al Pacífico, cuando sobrevivían el viaje por el desierto. También fue la vía por la cuál miles de pioneros viajaban en caravanas con sus familias hacia el oeste para asentarse en un sitio que les permitiera vivir en paz de acuerdo a su creencia en Dios, y prosperar trabajando.</p><p class="">Nosotros salimos de la costa este hace dos semanas, durmiendo cada noche en una cama, comiendo lo que quisimos y casi siempre en exceso, viajando cientos de kilómetros cada día sin mayor riesgo que quedarnos dormidos por la monotonía de la carretera. No sólo llegamos todos vivos sino que no sufrimos una gripa ni un pinchazo. Y nuestras mayores incomodidades eran bombas de gasolina que no dispensaban diesel, y hoteles con lavadoras sucias.</p><p class="">Es un gran contraste con respecto a una familia de cinco pioneros que pasaron meses llegando al río Missouri en barco y tren para comenzar una caminata de miles de kilómetros vestidos en ropa demasiado acalorada para el verano y demasiado fría para el invierno cargando sus cobijas y sus escrituras. Prácticamente ninguna familia llegó sin que alguno de sus miembros falleciera por el camino, algunos de hambre. No importaban las incomodidades porque no había tiempo ni energía para quejarse de ellas.</p><p class="">El resto del camino estuvimos hablando de lo bendecidos que somos de haber podido completar este viaje. Cada uno habló acerca de las cosas que más y que menos le habían gustado conocer. Hablamos de cómo los planes nos habían ayudado a tener un buen viaje y de qué cosas podemos hacer mejor la próxima vez.</p><p class="">Entramos a Utah casi de noche y a una hora y media de la casa. Ahí nos dimos cuenta que vivimos en un estado muy chiquito.</p>


























  <p class="">🇺🇸 The day started pretty much like all others. Breakfast, playing Tetris with the bags, diesel, Red Bull, road. We crossed the small city of Casper, Wyoming, and ten minutes later we were moving forward down a road without traffic in the middle of nowhere. We were still on the lookout for the Hawaii and Louisiana license plates but with much less hope, and competing to see which team would find the most Jeep Wranglers along the way.</p><p class="">The difference was that now the GPS said that home was six and a half hours away, so we had a mix of emotions that distracted us a bit from the road for the rest of the day. It was the last of 34 days away from home. The idea of arriving and resting from the trip sounded exciting but we didn’t want this family time of exploration and learning to end. There was just one more new place left to see.</p><p class="">The Mormon Handcart History Site sits along the Pony Express Trail. Before the Internet, airplanes, FedEx, paved roads, the transcontinental railroad, or the telegraph, this trail was the way through which hundreds of riders on horseback delivered mail and news from the Atlantic to the Pacific, when they survived the desert. It was also the way through which thousands of pioneers traveled in caravans with their families towards the west to settle where they could live in peace according to their belief in God, and to prosper working.</p><p class="">We left the East Coast about two weeks ago, sleeping in a bed every night, eating what we wanted and almost always in excess, covering hundreds of miles each day without much risk beyond falling asleep at the wheel due to monotony. Not only did we all make it alive but we didn’t have as much as a flat tire or a cold. And our greatest discomforts were gas stations that didn’t dispense diesel and hotels with dirty washing machines.</p><p class="">It’s a great contrast with respect to a family of five pioneers that spent months reaching the Missouri River by ship and train to start walking thousands of miles dressed in clothes too warm for summer and not warm enough for winter carrying their bedding and their scriptures. Practically no family arrived without one of their members dying along the way, some of starvation. Their discomforts didn’t matter because they had no time or energy to complain about them.</p><p class="">The rest of the way we discussed how blessed we are to have been able to complete this trip. Each one listed their favorite and least favorite sites. We talked about how planning had helped us have a good trip and about which things we could do better next time.</p><p class="">We crossed into Utah just before dusk and with an hour and a half left to go. There we realized that we live in a tiny state.</p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Mount Rushmore</title><category>Sabbatical 2019</category><dc:creator>Papá</dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 01 Aug 2019 12:00:00 +0000</pubDate><link>https://www.simplebanana.com/blog/mount-rushmore</link><guid isPermaLink="false">5d0288605b23e200010f1282:5d028c11b7dd580001da373d:5d426cef265001000168525a</guid><description><![CDATA[🇨🇴 Mommy lleva años diciendo que quiere conocer el monumento nacional de 
Mount Rushmore.

🇺🇸 Mommy has spent years saying how much she wants to visit the Mount 
Rushmore National Monument.]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<a data-title="" data-description="" data-lightbox-theme="dark" href="https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d0288605b23e200010f1282/1564638000454-DP9F13OM5GPHO79UMPG6/IMG_20190731_121614.jpg" role="button" aria-label="" class="
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  <p class="">🇨🇴 Mommy lleva años diciendo que quiere conocer el monumento nacional de Mount Rushmore. Siempre ha estado en la lista de lugares para visitar. Incluso, en este viaje fue el primer lugar que pusimos en el mapa del plan. Y así como durante años otros viajes resultaron más prácticos para el momento, en este viaje el primer lugar que pusimos en el plan tocó ponerlo hacia el final del viaje por cuestiones de logística.</p><p class="">El monumento queda prácticamente en la frontera de South Dakota con Wyoming, dos de los estados más reconocidos por ser despoblados. Eso quiere decir que para llegar al monumento, sin importar de qué otro estado viene el visitante, hay que andar cientos de millas por lugares donde lo más lejano que se puede ver desde cualquier punto en la carretera es más carretera. Ahora que lo pienso, no hay muchos Teslas por aquí.</p><p class="">Lo primero que hicimos una vez encontramos la placa de Oregon y el carro estuvo tanqueado fue ir al monumento. Mi experiencia con estos sitios es que uno logra verlos después de parquear lejos y caminar mínimo una hora. Así que pasamos el último pueblo antes del parqueadero, subimos más por la carret….. ¡caras! Aparecieron las cuatro caras destrás de unos árboles durante una curva en la carretera y casi no logramos encontrar un sitio seguro para tomar la primera foto.</p><p class="">Minutos después parqueamos y fuimos al centro de información y a la tienda. Nos enteramos que el anfiteatro y la forma más directa de acercarse al monumento estaban cerrados para ser remodelados. El lugar del monumento, si no se cuenta la montaña donde están las esculturas, es pequeño. En el folleto que uno recibe hay buena información acerca de la historia de las esculturas, y en uno de los edificios cuentan la historia con más detalle frente a un modelo de lo que hubiera sido el monumento terminado. Dato curioso, como muchos proyectos de cualquier gobierno, nunca lo terminaron por falta de fondos.</p><p class="">La mejor vista del monumento es desde lejos, pero Mommy no vino aquí para pararse lejos del monumento. Así que hicimos un esfuerzo como familia y caminamos por el camino largo, y subimos todos los escalones necesarios para llegar un poquito más cerca y ver que las pupilas no son de verdad. ¡Misión cumplida!</p><p class="">Volvimos al carro con mucha sed y hambre y fuimos a una pizzería en el pueblo más cercano. La calle estaba llena de motos y nos enteramos que un poco más al norte había un evento para motociclistas. Nosotros seguimos hacia el suroccidente, atravesando el bosque nacional Black Hills y la pradera nacional de Thunder Basin. La pradera fue impresionante por lo vasto que se ve el paisaje prácticamente vació. De vez en cuando se ve un pequeño pozo de petróleo. De hecho una de las pocas tiendas en el único pueblo en las casi cuatro horas hasta el hotel vende ropa y herramientas para trabajar en campos de petróleo.</p>


























  <p class="">🇺🇸 Mommy has spent years saying how much she wants to visit the Mount Rushmore National Monument. It was even the first place we marked on the planning map. And just as through the years other trips ended up being more convenient for the moment, during this trip the first place we marked on the map was left for the last part of the trip because it made more sense.</p><p class="">The monument is practically on South Dakota’s border with Wyoming, two of the states most widely known for their meager populations. That means that in order to reach the monument, without regard to the state of origin, one must drive hundreds of miles through places where the farthest place that can be seen from any point on the road is more road. Now that I think about it there aren’t many Teslas around here.</p><p class="">The first thing we did, once we found the Oregon license plate and filled up the tank, was head towards the monument. My experience with these places is that you can only see them after parking far away and then walking for at least an hour. So we passed the last town before the parking lot, went up the roa… faces! The four faces appeared behind the tree line by a turn on the road and we almost couldn’t find a safe place to stop and take the first picture.</p><p class="">Minutes later we parked and went to the information center and the store. We found out that the amphitheater and the quickest way to approach the monument were closed for remodeling. The site of the monument, if you don’t count the mountain with the sculptures themselves, is small. The pamphlet they give away contains some good information about the history of the sculptures and in one of the buildings they tell a more detailed story in front of a model of what the finished monument would have looked like. Fun fact, like many projects from any government, they never finished it due to lack of funding.</p><p class="">The best view of the monument is from a distance, but Mommy didn’t come all this way to stand far away from it. So we made a family effort and walked the long way around, and climbed all the necessary steps to get a bit closer and notice that the pupils aren’t real. Mission accomplished!</p><p class="">We returned to the car very thirsty and hungry and went to a pizzeria at the closest town. The street was full of motorcycles and we heard that a little further north there was an event for bikers. We went southwest, through the Black Hills National Forest and the Thunder Basin National Prairie. The prairie was impressive due to the vast and mostly empty landscape. Every once in a while there’d be an oil well. In fact, one for the few stores on the only town we found during the almost four hours on our way to the hotel sells apparel and tools for working on the oil fields.</p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>South Dakota</title><category>Sabbatical 2019</category><dc:creator>Papá</dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 31 Jul 2019 12:00:00 +0000</pubDate><link>https://www.simplebanana.com/blog/south-dakota</link><guid isPermaLink="false">5d0288605b23e200010f1282:5d028c11b7dd580001da373d:5d41257ac8f45f000117f9e8</guid><description><![CDATA[🇨🇴 Ayer cruzamos South Dakota. Total fueron más de 680 kilómetros sobre 
la I-90, que es más o menos una línea recta.

🇺🇸 Yesterday we crossed South Dakota. In all it was over 400 miles on 
I-90, which is pretty much a straight line.]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<a data-title="" data-description="" data-lightbox-theme="dark" href="https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d0288605b23e200010f1282/1564553033710-WUDHXHBESPVM65C9E74R/IMG_20190730_180224.jpg" role="button" aria-label="" class="
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  <p class="">🇨🇴 Ayer cruzamos South Dakota. Total fueron más de 680 kilómetros sobre la I-90, que es más o menos una línea recta. Es un gran contraste con las áreas metropolitanas del oriente. Desde el cruce del río Missouri en adelante es pradera y lomas. Se ve ganado y molinos de producción de electricidad eólica. El tráfico fluye rápidamente y sin problemas. Es un tramo recomendable para el que disfruta de paisajes.</p><p class="">Casi desde el principio del viaje, hace un mes, hemos estado llevando cuenta de las placas que encontramos de cada estado. Si bien no creemos que vayamos a encontrar la de Hawaii hoy vimos la de Washington y la de Kansas, que nos hacían falta.</p><p class="">Llegamos a Rapid City y caminamos por el centro. En cada esquina hay una estatua de cada presidente de los Estados Unidos y hay un callejón con muchos murales. Comimos, fuimos a la piscina del hotel y nos fuimos a dormir más o menos temprano para estar listos para Mount Rushmore.</p>


























  <p class="">🇺🇸 Yesterday we crossed South Dakota. In all it was over 400 miles on I-90, which is pretty much a straight line. It’s a great contrast with the eastern metropolitan areas. From the Missouri River on it’s prairie and hills. You can see cattle and windmills that generate electricity. Traffic flows quickly and without trouble. It’s a stretch recommended for anyone who enjoys scenic drives.</p><p class="">Almost since the start of the trip, about a month ago, we’ve tracked the license plates we’ve found from each state. We’re not hopeful to be able to find Hawaii but today we saw Washington and Kansas, which we were missing.</p><p class="">We arrived at Rapid City and walked around downtonw. In each corner there is a statue of a president of the United States, and there’s an alley full of murals. We had dinner, went to the pool and then to bed more or less early to be ready for Mount Rushmore.</p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Mall of America</title><category>Sabbatical 2019</category><dc:creator>Papá</dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 30 Jul 2019 12:00:00 +0000</pubDate><link>https://www.simplebanana.com/blog/mall-of-america</link><guid isPermaLink="false">5d0288605b23e200010f1282:5d028c11b7dd580001da373d:5d3fcc7d1874ad00019b9b6a</guid><description><![CDATA[🇨🇴 El Mall of America es el centro comercial más grande de los Estados 
Unidos. Decirlo es fácil, pero la magnitud del sitio no se comprende 
realmente hasta que se llega al centro del edificio y se encuentra todo un 
parque de atracciones bajo techo.

🇺🇸 The Mall of America is the largest indoor shopping mall in the United 
States. It’s easy to say, but the magnitude of the place is hard to grasp 
until you get to the center of the building and find an entire indoor 
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  <p class="">🇨🇴 El Mall of America es el centro comercial más grande de los Estados Unidos. Decirlo es fácil, pero la magnitud del sitio no se comprende realmente hasta que se llega al centro del edificio y se encuentra todo un parque de atracciones bajo techo.</p><p class="">Llegar directamente a almorzar fue requirió concentración por la cantidad de distracciones que había rumbo a la plaza de comidas del tercer piso. Unas de las más impresionantes eran las esculturas gigantes de Lego. Eventualmente llegamos y logramos almorzar.</p><p class="">La siguiente parada fue el Crayola Experience. Es un museo de niños interactivo donde aprenden acerca de la fabricación de las crayolas y hacen actividades enfocadas en arte y creatividad. Hicieron crayolas con sus propios rótulos, imprimieron sus caras en hojas para colorear, hicieron marionetas magnéticas que bailaban solas en un escenario, y rogaron en la tienda de la salida para llevarse algo para la casa.</p><p class="">Luego fuimos al parque de Nickelodeon donde se tomaron fotos con algunos personajes y montamos en diferentes atracciones. Finalmente fuimos a comer y de nuevo emprendimos camino rumbo oeste.</p>


























  <p class="">🇺🇸 The Mall of America is the largest indoor shopping mall in the United States. It’s easy to say, but the magnitude of the place is hard to grasp until you get to the center of the building and find an entire indoor amusement park housed within.</p><p class="">Going straight to lunch took focus due to the amount of distractions along the way to the food court on the third floor. One of the most impressive was the giant Lego sculptures. Eventually we got there and managed to have lunch.</p><p class="">The next stop was the Crayola Experience. It’s an interactive children’s museum where they learn about crayon manufacturing and participate in activities focused on art and creativity. They made crayons with custom labels, printed their faces on coloring pages, crafted magnetic puppets that danced on their own up on stage, and begged to take something home from the store.</p><p class="">Then we went to the Nickelodeon amusement park where they took pictures with some characters and we rode on some rides. Finally we had dinner and were back on the road due west.</p>]]></content:encoded></item></channel></rss>