The journey back home has started for us. We left the camp site today and on the way to Santo Domingo for the flight to New York and then to Seattle and then a last car ride home to Vancouver.
Update 1:
Made it to the airport, a bumpy journey and we realize now that even thought we haven’t took off, we’re already starting to miss the people and our daily routine for the last two weeks.
Update 2:
It’s been a rough couple of days! We left Port-au-Prince on the 9th and reached Santo Domingo later that day. We were supposed to catch a flight to New York the very next morning at 3am but we soon found out that all flights to New York were canceled due to the massive snowstorm there. And so we’ve been stuck in Santo Domingo ever since! We hope to get a flight to New York tonight, but even if we do, we might not get a flight out of New York until Sunday.
We’ve been trying to make the best out of the situation and have been sightseeing around Santo Domingo as we wait for our travel plans to be sorted out. Santo Domingo is a great city. It’s modern, clean and generally well organized. It’s amazing to think about the differences between Santo Domingo and Port-au-Prince. Both cities are on the same island and yet one is a bustling metropolis and the other is a sad ruins. Even though we’re not yet back in North America, we can’t help but feel sadness at the disparity in living conditions we’ve witnessed. All of us keep thinking back to our time in Haiti, the experiences we had there and the people of Haiti that touched our lives forever. We’re eager to back to our lives in Canada but none of us plan to forget what we experienced here.
Update 3:
Stuck in New York – planes all been canceled due to the snow storm. Airport is crowded and hope everything is going okay with the sevadaars in Haiti.
Take care,
Team Jericho