Back Home, Safe & Sound (with a view of the Sound)

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Trip End Nov 13, 2007


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Saturday, November 17, 2007

    First off, thank you to all'y'all for your thoughts, prayers and/or notes of concern over the last ten days.  Since my last post I have successfully made it back to Seattle--well, more specifically I've made it back to Des Moines, WA (about 20 minutes south of Seattle) where my parents live.  My father is in Texas, waiting for the bikes to get shipped back to the USA.  I now have several weeks of sitting on a couch healing to look forward to.

    So, having a broken leg sucks, but I just can't bring myself to be upset or irritated by it.  In fact, I feel incredibly lucky.  Not only am I lucky that so many people stepped up out of nowhere to help me when I needed help, but I am very lucky to have a place I can return to, where I have family that is ready and willing to put up with me while I wait for my leg to heal. 

    Enough of the update stuff, though, now I have a bald-faced appeal for charity.  Not for me, but for the Isle de Ometepe--the place where I wrecked and where the people were unbelievably helpful when I needed them most.  The Bainbridge-Ometepe Sister Island Association is an organization based out of Bainbridge Island, WA that is dedicated to promoting development on the island.  If it weren't for this organization, Bridgette the ER doctor would not have been on the island, nor would Rosalinda received the training she needed to provide me with the first-aid treatment I got.
    If any of you are looking for an organization to support this holiday season, please consider BOSIA.  Not only do they accept donations but they also sell coffee grown on Ometepe to raise funds (at $8/pound it's actually very reasonably priced for Fair Trade organic coffee).

    And, with that, I hearby bring this travelblog to a close.  If any of y'all want to keep further tabs on what's going on with me please visit my myspace page or livejournal blog.

Thank you all very much for reading,

Matt Pearsall
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