Always one step ahead ever since leaving home more than a year ago, this time was different. We were gone, the only world anyone knew until that day lay behind, far across the sea. And the timing, by pure chance, turned out to be in our favor, actually just slightly…

Yuri, How are things at home? It’s been over a month. So far everything has come off without a hitch, and we’ve almost arrived to where we’ll be working. We didn’t want to stay in Caracas even for a day, anxious and all to get started. Coming up to the…