A gentleman in the Kelowna airport overheard us talking about Landon busking in various locations on our world trip, so he reached into his pocket and gave us 5 dollars to get him started.
On the flight from Vancouver to L.A. ,the flight attendant gave Landon and Tianna each an Alaska airline flight pin, and did not charge for any of our meals. They even took the time to leave a comment on our blog! Fly Alaska Air!!
We met a guy in the bottom of the volcano who is a guide for a dune buggy company and he offered Landon & Luis to take the buggy for a free ride!!
Truly, if there was a “Kindness Award” it would have to go to Carlos & his family from El Salvador. Welcoming our family into their home after only receiving an email from a mutual friend in Vernon is what we feel God’s intention is for all his people. After only spending 4 days together we are family! Having Luis with us in Costa Rica is so special and from this initial meeting, two families are united forever. How cool is that!!!
We are so grateful to Alex, our airport shuttle driver from Costa Rica. He drove us from the airport to the beach town Jaco and to the hostel we booked online. After unloading all of our luggage we quickly realized that this place was not appropriate for children. We decided to move on and had to make several more stops before finding suitable accommodation. He was so understanding and helpful that we gave him a nice tip for sticking it out with us and not leaving us stranded!
Truly, if there was a “Kindness Award” it would have to go to Carlos & his family from El Salvador. Welcoming our family into their home after only receiving an email from a mutual friend in Vernon is what we feel God’s intention is for all his people. After only spending 4 days together we are family! Having Luis with us in Costa Rica is so special and from this initial meeting, two families are united forever. How cool is that!!!
We are so grateful to Alex, our airport shuttle driver from Costa Rica. He drove us from the airport to the beach town Jaco and to the hostel we booked online. After unloading all of our luggage we quickly realized that this place was not appropriate for children. We decided to move on and had to make several more stops before finding suitable accommodation. He was so understanding and helpful that we gave him a nice tip for sticking it out with us and not leaving us stranded!
We met a lady from Georgia who has been living in Costa Rica for 7 years, she was so nice to offer to take all our luggage up to the house in the mountain. Everything fit in her 4X4, including all our family, except me, I walked, or I should say scaled up the road behind them!
At the Eco Lodge in La Fortuna the rates were quite high for our family of 5 but the owner and her manager seemed to like us and gave us two rooms for half the price and even included dinner at a minimal charge.
We will be forever grateful to Elias, the Cordova's, Violetta, Dennis & Ruth, and Ramiro for opening up their homes for us to stay and for taking such good care of us while in Peru! Wonderful, incredible, hospitable, and loving people!!
How can we ever thank Dennis & Ruth for lightening our load by taking our purchases and non-essentials back to Canada with them?!
When we left Cuzco Vanessa hand-made us the most beautiful cards and gave us a painting she did of Huacachina. What a lovely, kind and generous family.
Rick from Scarborough gave Tianna a chocolate bar and traded his peanuts for her roasted lima beans on the train back to Cuzco from Machu Picchu.
Luis gave us his phone/camera adapter so that we could download our pictures from our phone to the computer.
We will be forever grateful to Elias, the Cordova's, Violetta, Dennis & Ruth, and Ramiro for opening up their homes for us to stay and for taking such good care of us while in Peru! Wonderful, incredible, hospitable, and loving people!!
How can we ever thank Dennis & Ruth for lightening our load by taking our purchases and non-essentials back to Canada with them?!
When we left Cuzco Vanessa hand-made us the most beautiful cards and gave us a painting she did of Huacachina. What a lovely, kind and generous family.
Rick from Scarborough gave Tianna a chocolate bar and traded his peanuts for her roasted lima beans on the train back to Cuzco from Machu Picchu.
Rina’s brother Hipolito, sister-in-law Dianet and her little nephew Paul picked us up from our hotel for a day tour of Chucuito near Puno.
We met Mikolaj from Poland on our tour of Lake Titicaca, he came to our rescue by lending us money for lunch and since our battery died he took a picture of JC & Tianna next to the lake they had just jumped into.
Basil, whom we met sitting next to on the flight from Johanessburg to Cape Town, invited us to his house for a Braai (BBQ) with his friends and gave us lot’s of treats and Rand($$) for our road trip to Durban.
Jessica & Jason from Cape Town blessed us by providing beautiful accommodation and a personal tour of the Cape Town area. As well were amazingly helpful planning the next leg of our journey in South Africa.
Sue fed us lunch and tea while giving a history lesson on Zimbabwe.
Nyasha, for finding us affordable accommodation, arranging a driver, getting a discount on elephant rides, coming with us to purchase our bus tickets and everything she did for us while in Vic Falls.
Spray View Hotel shuttle driver lent us a Sim card for our phone.
Issac, got us a new cord for our walkie talkies.
Thanks to Deb, Sue and Cathy for offering to take some of our stuff home with them from Zimbabwe.
A travel agent in the Harare airport let us use his internet while we were waiting to catch our flight.
Demelza’s kids are very kind. When we left after only 4 days together they had wrapped presents for Landon & Tianna, so sweet of them!
Keta picked us up & drove us to the airport in Lilongwe.
Maria gave Tianna crochet lessons in Uganda.
After our visit with Ozi in Malawi, Pearson, the World Vision driver, took us to the bank and to the bus station to buy our tickets.
At a convenience store in Lilongwe, Malawi I was going to buy some cereal and milk but did not have enough Kwacha and of course no one takes credit cards but the manager who was standing by the check out offered to cover the cost if I could come back the next day to pay. Just another example of how friendly the African people are.
Demelza’s kids are very kind. When we left after only 4 days together they had wrapped presents for Landon & Tianna, so sweet of them!
Keta picked us up & drove us to the airport in Lilongwe.
Maria gave Tianna crochet lessons in Uganda.
Winnie, in Uganda helped us make salvation bracelets to hand out to the P6 class.
While trying to cross a very busy street in Maadi, Egypt a man stopped the traffic and escorted me across the street.
Rod & Susan for allowing us to stay in their beautiful apartment in Egypt for almost 2 months and of course for agreeing to take all our purchases (a whole suitcase plus) back to Canada with them!
Niko in Israel, gave us his Sim card for our phone to use while we were in the country and was a wonderful tour guide of the area around The Sea of Galilee.
Stephane, from France, gave us a ride to the Ferry in Aqaba.
The two security guards, a teacher and IT Tech. from the school and Mark who witnessed my unfortunate interaction with a thief in Maadi. Two of the young men accompanied me to the police station to be my interpreter and as witnesses.
The whole village of Pasakoy, Turkey who welcomed our 'family of 8' to their town celebration and shared all their delicious food with us. And especially Turgay who was the perfect host.
Rod & Susan for allowing us to stay in their beautiful apartment in Egypt for almost 2 months and of course for agreeing to take all our purchases (a whole suitcase plus) back to Canada with them!
Niko in Israel, gave us his Sim card for our phone to use while we were in the country and was a wonderful tour guide of the area around The Sea of Galilee.
Stephane, from France, gave us a ride to the Ferry in Aqaba.
The two security guards, a teacher and IT Tech. from the school and Mark who witnessed my unfortunate interaction with a thief in Maadi. Two of the young men accompanied me to the police station to be my interpreter and as witnesses.
The whole village of Pasakoy, Turkey who welcomed our 'family of 8' to their town celebration and shared all their delicious food with us. And especially Turgay who was the perfect host.
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