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Our flight back to the States is scheduled for 1PM.  We are several hours away from the airport.  With Gregorio's help, we decide we need to leave at 6:30 AM so meet at 6:00 for breakfast.  Alas, the kitchen doesn't open until 6:30.  We decide to leave at 6:00 and stop along the way for breakfast.  This turned out to be a great decision.  Gregorio knows all the best places to stop.  We are high in the mountains so even though it is July 9, we are bundled up with our newly purchased jackets and huddle around the stove where they are making tortillas by hand.  We have a nice, big, traditional breakfast to send us off.  We even do some last minute shopping here.  One person had been looking for a certain kind of jacket the whole trip and finally found it here.  Of course, once others saw it, several others were purchased.  The merchant was happy to start his day off so well. 
Luckily, the travel agency I had been working with was on the way to the airport so a quick stop to get a refund for the hotel room that wasn't used after Juan left.  It was nice also to be able to  pass on our appreciation of our great bus driver in person to the higher ups. 

A sad good bye to Gregorio at the airport.  The timing was perfect.  Leisurely check in, get something to eat and board.

Now back home and thinking about the next trip.  I'm thinking Oaxaca.

Update on Juan.  Once he got back home and was able to use his old pair of glasses, the head aches started getting better.  He went to the doctor for a check up and all is fine.  After a week, he is back to his usual, gregarious self.  What a relief!