Where's Waldo?

A couple of things just coalesced into something beautiful.

For the past few months, Dennis and I have been cosplaying Waldo and Carmen SanDiego. Today, just as we started this trip blog, I opened Google Maps to check on one of our stops and Waldo popped up! If they do Carmen next month (the actual trip month), I'll flip.

~ Irene



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