We spent almost eighteen months on the road, and it was a learning experience the entire time.

We sat our daughter Eden down to ask what it's really like to have Hyrum as a brother. What we heard back was a lot harder, and a lot more hopeful, than we expected.

We didn't plan to stop in Albuquerque. A trailer breakdown left us at Isleta Lakes RV Park for two weeks we never intended to spend, and it turned into one of the stops we're most glad happened to us.

We left Albuquerque in March, stopping a night or two here and there, before we landed in Forney, Texas, to visit family.

Everyone told us not to drive it. Here's the real leg-by-leg account, borders, ferry operators, pesos, a dog's paperwork, and the eight drives that took our family from a Texas summer to an island off Honduras.

We came for dry air and a warm winter and found a river town that reveals itself slowly.