Wednesday, July 20, Des moines.  I had a 128 day around the world trip planned, but on the 118th day, Thursday, July 14th, my daughter phoned me at 7 pm, and told me my wife was very ill, and put the emergency room doctor on the phone.  He explained that Marcia had blood clots in both legs and in both lungs...  and was severely ill; by eight pm I was at the airport in Kauai, Hawaii, seeking plane transportation home, the departure desk clerk from Hawaiian Airlines saw my anxiousness and got me on a direct flight from Kauai to Phoenix and then to Des Moines on American Airlines, getting me home a day earlier than trying to return to Honolulu then to the mainland.  Leaving my large suitcases stored at the hostel in Honolulu, I arrived in Des Moines at 1:30 pm on Friday afternoon, and was at the hospital by two pm.  Now it is a week later, and I have the time to do this last blog for a while.  Marcia has committed to help me finish my round the world trip and come to Hawaii with me for those last ten days when she recovers, and is feeling up to a vacation trip.  I'm looking forward to doing that together.  As an aside, I had purchased three travel insurances, two had expired, but one was a 120 day travel policy, and this occured on the 118th day, so this time my unused five plane trips, the unused tours, the hostel nights, and the recovery of my luggage will be covered with this policy, hopefully.  I will continue this blog in some future months when Marcia and I complete my bucket list trip!