EPILOGUE

The family consensus is that I will no longer be given carte blanche for any future vacations. Our taste for adventure has been more than satisfied for the next decade. Adventure on vacations for the next several years will be limited to ordering new desserts. We try not to think about what alternative vacations we could have done with the two weeks, 960,000 Northwest miles and significant expense this adventure required. Hopefully as time passes we will forget the headaches, nausea and other health maladies, days without showers, sunburn and aching muscles and joints and only remember the phenomenal views, interesting personalities we met on the journey, physical accomplishments that we were not sure we were capable of completing and of course the time we spent together as a family.

Kevin, Michelle, Brian and Allison