Priceless

When I add up all the things that our 2 year mexico adventure cost us, I can get depressed.
... two years of lost salary, and experience
... missing holidays, funerals, weddings, and casual get-togethers
... hundreds of hours stuck in DF traffic
... dozens of days in cars and buses and trains and planes and boats
... a few too many stomach parasites and bacterias
... two cameras lost/broken
... one or two bad haircuts

But then I remember this advertisement we saw at the Mexico City airport:


and I start to think of all the Priceless bonuses:
... learning Spanish really well
... making new friends
... Writing a book
... reading dozens more
... taking thousands of pictures
... teaching my favorite subject
... laying in a hammock in the sunshine
... enjoying fresh tortillas, ripe mangoes, sauteed cactus, and authentic tequila
... visiting the pyramids so often it becomes routine
... hosting family vacations and loving family even more
... bringing really unique Christmas gifts home to share
... living and knowing, really knowing, really living, a life in Mexico