Where are the daily reports, huh?

So, I tried to be clever... I set up a bunch of draft posts that would describe our distance and height numbers, which we could add to as we went along. But as we complete the drafts, they're all coming up with the old dates. Which isn't what I wanted at all, but it's kind of hard to solve from a phone. Similarly hard to solve: posting photos from the Blogger app, which can't find most of the images on our phones. So, sorry the content is out of sequence and under-illustrated. We'll do our best to fix that once we're home. In the meantime, you can check out my instagram here for some photos of the trip.
Normal service will be trained just as soon as we can figure out what normal is anyway...

Dates should now all be corrected on the daily reports. I'm working to add more photos to them.

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