Back to Asunción

After spending two weeks in Yuty getting settled and setting up our house, we found out that our criminal background check papers from the US had arrived in Paraguay.  Somehow, and we still haven't figured out how, instead of delivering the package to the PO box in Asuncion, our papers got routed down to Yuty.  After waiting for several days, we then heard they had been routed back to Asuncion.  We made the decision on Monday afternoon to quickly pack up and make the drive to Asuncion, with the assumption they would arrive on Tuesday.

We were able to get in the car and on the road in about an hour.  The drive to Asuncion is about 175 miles by the most direct route, but takes 5-6 hours with good weather.  The first 2-3 hours are on dirt roads if it is dry.

Holly and the kids standing in the middle of Highway 8, about an hour north of our house.  Highway 8 passes right by our front door.  This road is actually traveled by semi trucks and fully laden buses.

Here is another short video of the road as we are driving.  This is about an hour past where we stopped to take the above photo.  Most of the landscape is flat and wide open like this.  When the ground is dry, there are just clouds of dust as other vehicles pass.  A lot of the dirt is just like red powder and it coats everything.  As you drive around Asuncion, it is very obvious which vehicles are from out in the country.

Back to Asunción from 5Larrabees on Vimeo.

After much prayer, our FBI background checks finally arrived at the SIM guesthouse in Asuncion! 

We are now madly running all over Asuncion to various offices.  The goal is to get resident cards for Paraguay.  We also have a few other things we need to purchase and we already need to get some maintenance done on the Toyota, so we will be without a vehicle for at least two days.  We are planning to be here for at least two weeks, but we would definitely like to be headed back to Yuty sooner.