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Out of touch we have been.

Internet access again!

Have I mentioned yet that it is cold here? Bone-chilling, wind-ripping cold.

I am frozen to my core from the second my toes slide out from under the covers.

So I have taken some of the best baths ever. With Jameson. On the rocks.

Sunny one second, the next pouring rain.

Pouring so hard and so loud your ears ring.

And it has been hailing.

This weather is apparently somewhat freakish, and more than once global warming has been mentioned.

Whales breaching to the right, flowers screaming with color to the left.

And the wineries here are just incredible. They have been around for hundreds of years and sprawl through what have to be some of the most breathtaking landscapes on the planet.

They have souls, and you feel it.

Not unlike New Orleans.

It's beautiful.

And I am so thoughtful at times I can't do anything but stare.

It's quite hard to pull it all off in words.

Most nights I fall asleep so hard I have a hell of a time waking up.

And I dream of home and family like I have never dreamed before.

Almost lucid.

We have been eating like kings, our own cooking (mostly Keith).

And we have been grilling.

Today, Aluana took us mushrooming in the forest.

I think photos say it best, although I'm not even sure they do it all justice...