Preparations almost done

So, this will be our last night in The Netherlands. After a very busy two weeks of moving our stuff into storage, emptying our house, changing addresses, arranging the last introduction letters, free shipping for life vests (for the school kids on boat rides),  domestic flights, and saying goodbye to a lot of people, we are finally almost ready to go.

Tomorrow at about 18:15 we will fly to Santa Cruz de la Sierra, Bolivia through Madrid, and from there on to La Paz and Rurrenabaque. In La Paz we will leave a big box of life vests  behind because it will never fit in the tiny plane to Rurre (if they will accept it on the plane from Santa Cruz in the first place). We'll see.

In Rurrenabaque we will develop educational material for a nature and environmental education project together with four secondary schools and the Tacana indigenous people from San Miguel del Bala and the municipal and district governments. The whole project is funded by Amazon Fund, who asked us to develop the educational material.

We will stay here in September and October, after which the school year ends (and the rainy season starts)  and we will return there in april and may to finish the project.  The plans in between are still not final.

For now only some sleep, finishing packing and arranging  some final things remain. We really look forward to leaving!