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Recipe from familyfun.com  Comments, in italics, from life on Calpurnia.

The best part of this colorful, tasty, broth-based dish? Everyone at the table can customize their serving with add-ins of their choice. And it's quick and simple to pull together, especially if you use precooked chicken.

Soup

• 2 quarts chicken broth
• 2 cups corn kernels
• 3 Roma tomatoes, chopped
• 4 tablespoons salsa

 In 2000 Tom Hanks released a movie called "Castaway".  For much of the movie, the only supporting character other than Tom Hanks, was his friend "Wilson".  Stranded on a deserted island, out of boredom Chuck Noland (Tom Hanks) creates an imaginary friend from one of the few items to survive his airplane crash.  One of those items was a Wilson brand volleyball.

At first, Chuck knew that it was just a volleyball, he had a bit of fun and made a face on it with some mud.  As the movie progresses, Chuck begins to speak out loud to his only companion "Wilson".  Wilson grows to be an integral participant in the every day happenings of what Chuck does with his time. 

Every where that Chuck goes, Wilson goes.  At the end of every day, Chuck tells Wilson of all that went on.  Every meal, every nap, every adventure is shared with Wilson.  Wilson becomes Chuck's best friend and support system.

What you see before you is a true work in progress. I have spent the first week in May (2007), trying to set up a blog platform based upon Moveable Type. For all of you who still pine for the days of DOS and typing in DIR, you would love Unix and setting up Moveable Type.

It has been a bear.

But, it is done, at least the setup part of it.  Things have gone well enough that I have switched over the main home page to be that of the new Movable Type system.  The "Navigation Links" section will take you to portions of the site which I have not converted over yet.

I'm not crazy with this red color, I would like to change it to blue.   Many of the navigation links take you to pages in the old web site which I have not converted their style/theme.  But all of that will come.

On a positive note, I have all of the posts which mirror most of the pages in the "Travel Photo" section back on the main GoReads.com web page. I don't have the pics of what we have done back in Kansas, for that you will need to look at those in the Travel Photo-Time Ashore section.  I'm hoping/trying to get those setup in a photo gallery, but the "bear" is still fighting me on that desire.

If you have any thoughts you can try out the comment functionality below, people have scared me on the concept of spam, so for now you will need to register.  Super easy to do and will work with thousands of other sites based upon Movable Type or Typepad software.

For a more traditional approach you can use the email / form note back on the main site.

One last bell and whistle... you can now subscribe to a RSS/ATOM feed so that you can stay updated on our trip.  If your not familiar with feeds, an option is also provided so that you can receive an email anytime there is an update to the site.

The longer we do this the more practical we get about our goals. If and when we reach Panama, we hope to then turn east through the canal and into the Caribbean sea.

I have stopped saying when I think all of this will occur, I'm tired of being wrong.

We returned to our home in Overland Park, Kansas during the holidays. As feared, we have been sucked back into the world of the suburbs and all that goes with it.

The law of inertia says that an object in motion tends to stay in motion, and and object at rest tends to stay at rest.

We have found ourselves resting in Kansas and we can not get out of this state. Our sailboat "Calpurnia" is in Mazatlan, Mexico waiting patiently for us to return.

We hope you will take a minute and leave us a note on our Contact page and let us know you were here. Check out the "Travel Journal" category for a synopsis of our travels with photos and tall tales.