Good morning!
I am sitting at MY OWN kitchen table this morning with MY OWN coffee cup.
We left Honduras (84 degrees) yesterday at 1:00 pm and arrived back on my doorstep at 1:30 a.m. (17 degrees and snowing) this morning.
Finally… the snow on my blog makes sense again.
I am glad to be home and over the next few days I will share pictures, happenings, and recipes with you surrounding the 10 days I spent traveling around Honduras with 6 friends, exploring options of where we can team up in the future. It was an amazing trip, but we spent a lot (A LOT) of time in a car traveling here and there, sometimes 4 -5 hours one way so you can imagine that I am excited to start moving (literally) again!
The people who were with us and drove us around were Terry and Colleen Hawk. Missionaries of Honduras and amazing people. I have known them for years, but this year was the year these two amazing people went from acquaintances to friends.
Terry’s dad, Don Hawk was the man who came to Honduras on a banana boat in 1968 to start a school for underprivileged boys. He applied to do this through a mission agency and was turned down – however he felt called to do this anyway, so packed up his wife and his two small sons at the time and to Honduras they went.
Now all these years later, while Don passed away at the age of 59, the school (the farm school I showed pictures of earlier) flourishes, and Terry’s sons and grandchildren are still doing things in Honduras that has really changed the country. It was an honor to spend time getting to know Terry and Colleen better.
SO – I tell you all this today because the book, Come What May by Betty Hockett is the story of Dawn Hawk. I read it several years back but now that I know more of the story, I want to read it again.
The Giveaway
The giveaway I want to do is for a bag of Honduran coffee (which is delicious!). All I would like is a comment here for letting me know a trip that you have taken that has inspired a book purchase (trip and book title).
One Bonus Entry
If you would like to subscribe to my blog (upper right side bar) and let me know in a separate comment here (or if you already subscribe) and that will count as an extra entry.
Winner will be chosen using random.org on Wednesday morning – December 14th.
It’s good to be home!
Book Journey 
Hmmm..I have traveled extensively, but the most profound trip on me was when I lived in the former USSR. I was inspired to read books that were banned by the government. I soon as I reached Finland I sought out any book by Solzhenitsyn (I honestly cannot recall which I found in Finland and the back on US soil I eventually read everything by him including THE GULAG collection. While in the USSR I did read Karl Marx in several languages as that book was everywhere!
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So glad you are home, safe and sound! Sounds like you had a wonderful trip!
One summer we were fortunate to take our family on a trip through the South and made a stop in Atlanta, Georgia. We toured the Margaret Mitchell House and saw the tiny bedroom where she wrote the majority of “Gone With The Wind.” I was inspired to re-read this American classic that summer and have had fond memories of that trip ever since!
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This coffee looks delicious. Thanks for the giveaway. Several years ago we visited Arizona and the four corners areas, taking in some of the parks. This made us interested in the Tony Hillerman series, and in particular The Shape Shifter.
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A trip that was memorable and my first ever out of the country was to Italy. I began to read many novels of Italy and particularly A Thread of Grace by Mary Doria Russell.
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A road trip to Colorado which was fascinating for the beauty and historic interest caused me to read Silver Lies by Ann Parker which was special.
So glad you made it home, Sheila. My hubby’s flight is being diverted to South Dakota. Hopefully he’ll make it into town today. A trip that prompted me to get a book was one summer trip to Savannah. I just had to read Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil by John Berendt and was so glad I did.
Glad to hear you are home and that you had a most wonderful trip! Too bad it’s snowing but I guess that’s the good part of getting away in the winter 🙂
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I noticed on the weather report that you are being greeted at home with a couple feet of snow. Lucky you! 🙂
ON my last trip out west, I was again just mesmerized by the scenery so I bought Annie Proulx’s At Close Range (again! I keep giving my copies away I love it so much!) xo
Welcome Home!!! I look forward to your pics and getting up-to-date on your 10 days in Honduras!
Welcome back, Sheila! So glad you had a wonderful, inspiring trip….
What a wonderful holiday giveaway! Our son goes
to the University of Minnesota and they now have 10″
of snow on the ground…I took a trip to five countries in Europe and then went out and bought books on the history of Shakespeare, the Alps, the Palace of Versailles and other places that fascinated me!
Many thanks, Cindi
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“Happy Holidays!”
Merci, Cindi
Welcome home! I’m not a coffee drinker *gasp* but just wanted to stop by and say a quick hello! 🙂
I am so glad you are home safe and sound and ready to throw yourself back into your routine…
I don’t like coffee so don’t enter me, and no title from me 🙂 BUT wanted to say a big welcome home!
welcome back home. looks like the trip went well in regards to bonding time with friends.
Welcome back, Sheila…looking forward to your photos and stories of your trip.
Wow…I bet that weather change was hard to swallow at first…but home is usually where the heart is. Glad you enjoyed the trip and “welcome home”. ^_^
Mines kind of backwards. I was given the chance to review the book, Hiking Through by Paul Stutzman. It was about Paul’s hike of the over 2,000 mile Appalachian Trail and it has inspired me to hike portion of the Appalachian trail this summer. I look forward to it very much.
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We live on the NC/TN border, and the Trail runs right along the ridge. The library where I worked is a favorite drop off point for hikers to use the computers. We always section hike when we visit family in the Northeast as well as down here.
I love visiting the NC Mountains and love reading about the mountains. The best fiction books with an element of truth are Gap Creek by Robert Morgan and Bloodroot by Amy Greene. Both books are amazing reads.
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My husband’s business trips to China made me long to read Lost on Planet China by J. Maarten Troost. Alas, it wasn’t a book I enjoyed, not did it refelct my husband’s eperiences in China, so I sold it.
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Welcome back. It is always nice to be back in your own kitchen and back in your own bed.
Most of the books we have because we have visited places are nonfiction. We had a wonderful trip to Prince Edward’s Island and Nova Scotia, primarily Cape Breton. I already had all the Anne of Green Gables books so didn’t buy any from there. On Cape Breton Island, we bought THE CABOT TRAIL. It is basically a picture book of the area an information on the history , etc. I tend to get books about the area or history of the area we visit. Last June we were in Florida. Went to the Dry Tortugas. Got a lovely book at the Park Store FORT JEFFERSON AND THE DRY TORTUGAS NATIONAL PARK. a good book on the history of the island, fort, and park.
Stay warm. I can’t believe it is colder here in TN than it is at my Dad’s in NY on the Canadian border.
Welcome back!
The Hawks are amazing…courage to truly make a difference for so many people.