Alpacas in Mississippi???

Cameron and Danny have agreed with my crazy idea so what is next? PRAYER and starting to learn more about the animals I was planning to raise.

The main prayer was if this "project" wasn't God's direction for me, then please "shut a door" as I don't hear answers too easily when it comes to something I want! It seems the doors keep opening!

As to learning, my initial questions were: Can an animal originally from the Andes Mountains of SA survive the HOT climate of Mississippi?? Next, once I raised them what did I do with them - what was the market for them?? Of course there was/is so much more I need to learn in order to succeed at my project!

Internet searching led to realizing I needed to visit other alpaca farms. The first was in North Carolina. This farm raised huacaya alpacas and I liked them but it wasn't what I'd envisioned and neither was the layout of the farm. The second was in Mississippi and also raised hacayas. Again, this just wasn't what I was dreaming about.

Next I was planning a trip to Ohio to see my brother Ben and his wife Mary Jane. I came upon the website of AlpacaJack.com (Findlay, Ohio) and they were having a weekend seminar about the time I was planning to visit Ben. Two birds with one stone! The "doors" opened as I was last minute in getting reasonable airline tickets, the seminar had some cancelations so I was in, the timing was good for Ben and Mary Jane, and the hotel was cheap!

Off to my "dream"!