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Andrew Tonn: May 2006
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Adventures Around the World. I am on my way to Trujillo to at least graze the edges of the Mosquitia jungle and to visit the grave of that ill-fated American adventurer William Walker. Why I should have been in any hurry is beyond me now. Neither are going anywhere anytime soon. You re with La Tribuna, eh? Si, y tu? Freelance. On vacation. The bus. I shrugged. You were on a bus? He asked pointing back into the miles of jammed traffic. That would be great. Posted by Andrew at 2:20 PM. We stood watching, a...
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Andrew Tonn: July 2006
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Adventures Around the World. The Parrots of Quetzaltenango. Of course whining does no good and with the personal mantra of strength that got me out of bed through almost four years of military school I chanted, Ahhhh fk it, and swung myself out of the bed’s warmth, onto the cold tile floor and stood bravely at attention while trying not to cry. Hello parrot, I said. Crrraaaawww, replied the parrot. The parrot walked closer and began chewing the leading edge of my left boot. You and I need to have a talk.
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Andrew Tonn: April 2006
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Adventures Around the World. Here on the coast of El Salvador the mountains descend almost to the sea. There are brief flats with their houses and salt-water mangrove swamps, a line of palms and then black sand and surf. The setting sun explodes the sky into fractured lines of pink and orange which fade to blues and black until suddenly the palms are silloueted against a spray of stars. Posted by Andrew at 5:47 PM. Gringo Poking and Oher Sports. It was a strange day, wasn t it, Katy? Yes, it was.". It s ...
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Andrew Tonn: December 2006
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Adventures Around the World. Once Upon a Time In Honduras. You walked into Paris, up off the cobbles of Calle Centenario into a small ante-room painted a deep blood red. There was a short bar to the left and some small red tables to the right. You continued on into a courtyard filled with tropical plants, long tables and a wall painted with phantasmagoric Gauguin foliage. I told him I’d see what I could do. At Paris, that night, the sign overhead read Lily’s . There was a pretty waitress named Sofia upon...
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Andrew Tonn: November 2007
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Adventures Around the World. A Tale of Cameras and Kings. Posted by Andrew at 6:31 PM. They're Coming to Take Me Away. Perhaps it is too many old war movies and comics, the same ones that have given me a sort of weird German vocabulary (Gott und Himmel! But my father made my mind rest a little easier with sage words of parental wisdom, "Son, when the Gestapo comes for you they kick the door in around 0400. And they don't use the siren.". Posted by Andrew at 9:25 AM. 12 Minutes To Malmo Redux. Individuals...
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Andrew Tonn: November 2006
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Adventures Around the World. SAN FRANCISCO ALTO We got off the bus where the hill continued steeply up through buildings covered and cloaked in the stalls and wares of market day. Instead of starting right up into the brightly colored melee of commerce we walked a ways down the highway and our teachers, Paty and Shirley from Escuela Sakribal led us up some steps roughly chopped into the dirt and rock and we stepped out onto a wide ledge. Posted by Andrew at 1:59 PM. Snazzily dressed or not, it was genera...
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Andrew Tonn: March 2006
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Adventures Around the World. Exploration, agrotainment and campesinos getting all hopped up on jugo de cana. I thought of Clevelanders coming down for a weekend in Wayne and Holmes counties to gawk at the Amish, eat hearty food and drink the local wines of the country vineyards while squeeling in delight at real live pigs and chickens scratching in the dirt instead of sizzling on a plate. Posted by Andrew at 7:21 PM. Wooster, Ohio, United States. View my complete profile. Film i Skåne. Fall Comes to Ohio.
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Andrew Tonn: February 2006
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Adventures Around the World. Call My Cell, Let's do Lunch. Of course one other thing that has prevented me from getting a cell phone in the past is the maddening complexity of the avaricious plans. The "plan" here, if you can call it that, is easily understood. I hope it is, anyway, because it was all explained in rapid fire Spanish to two gringos with an imperfect command of the idiom. Unless one says that one will answer one's phone at a certain time I believe there is no obligation to do so. There...
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Andrew Tonn: October 2007
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Adventures Around the World. How The Vikings Got Universal Health Care and Other Bedtime Stories. And so Christianity spread, as it did, and maybe no one here really cared all that much about Odin and Thor and company anyway and one day Thorvald and Svengaard were sitting around drinking fermented honey out of finely tooled drinking cups made from Parisian skulls and Svengaard said something like, "Ya know, Thorvald, I like this Viking stuff, I really do, but.". No need to get crazy dude! Or if I, or you...
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