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amantani island | here, there, everywhere
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Here, there, everywhere. After the Uros Islands, our boat (named Royal Caribbean. Fortunately, our family (Javier and Mathilde, above) turned out to be quite friendly. Other than buying some of their handknit hats and making small talk with them and their four year old (camera shy) son Lieber, there wasn't much else to do on Amantani except hike up the two local hills, Pachapapa and Pachamama. Also on top of Pachapapa, we met a really friendly dog, and he and Iain had a moment. It doesn't look like we di...
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Some people look out the window, others eat their books.: Saying Goodbye
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Some people look out the window, others eat their books. Sunday, February 20, 2011. Mid-2009 - July 2010 in review:. I traveled through Cambodia, Laos and Thailand in August 2009. My bff came for a visit. Christmas 2009 and NYE 2010. The best holiday I've ever taken! The Philippine Islands with K. My 32nd birthday in Hanoi. A quick trip Stateside to visit friends and family. The last motorbike adventure to the northernmost province, Ha Giang. (Which deserves way more photos than the few posted.).
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Some people look out the window, others eat their books.: April 2009
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Some people look out the window, others eat their books. Wednesday, April 15, 2009. Vietnam: Day 2-Present, Part V: The House and The People. The house had 3 floors, 5-bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, a huge kitchen, living room, foyer, 2 balconies and a rooftop terrace, as well as, a yard filled with plants and even a couple of small, fish ponds. It was also ideally located between the Old Quarter and our work and it was a short 3-minute walk to the Botanical Gardens (a place for me to run!
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Some people look out the window, others eat their books.: January 2010
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Some people look out the window, others eat their books. Saturday, January 9, 2010. Some of my missing parts. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). View my complete profile. Some of my missing parts. Community Service and You. Further than the lid of a pot. Every day is thanksgiving in our house.
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Some people look out the window, others eat their books.: July 2008
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Some people look out the window, others eat their books. Tuesday, July 29, 2008. Last night was one of my favorite summer events in B-Town. Three years ago I was introduced to $.25 Hotdog Night at Centennial Field, home of Vermont’s minor league baseball team, the Lake Monsters (formerly known as the Vermont Expos). At the time, I hadn’t eaten a hotdog for somewhere around 14 years (or whenever it was that I learned what they were actually made of). Oh, and did I mention the view. Thursday, July 24, 2008.
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November 2011 | here, there, everywhere
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Here, there, everywhere. Archive for November 2011. Last Tuesday, we bid farewell to Ollanta and set out for what's going to be a somewhat whirlwind journey through Peru, Bolivia and Chile. While the trip so far has been awesome and I'm really excited for the next two weeks, it was definitely sad to say goodbye to the place that had been home for the last two months. Pierro looks way happy for a kid who hates the taste of Pisco Sour foam. More to come from further down the road. Farmland), collected some...
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April 2011 | here, there, everywhere
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Here, there, everywhere. Archive for April 2011. A few more random shots of Hanoi courtesy of Hipstamatic - above and below are from the alley we've been living in, near West Lake. The early morning vegetable market. Scarecrows at the Museum of Ethnology: with all this free time in Hanoi, we are finally getting in all the tourist sights we never bothered with when we actually lived here. That was a terrible pun! I was also weirdly excited about roadside pho. And roadside coffee breaks! Roadside coffee br...
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September 2011 | here, there, everywhere
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Here, there, everywhere. Archive for September 2011. Our first full day in Ollanta, accompanied by another volunteer who arrived the same day as us, we hiked up to the ruins of Pinkullyuna, which loom over the central square in town (you can see them midway up the mountain). To get there, you walk down this narrow alleyway, until you get to the small wooden sign:. These long, thin buildings used to be Inca storehouses for grain. Plants growing from the top of the ruins). Hello from 11,200 feet! Coco tea,...
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October 2011 | here, there, everywhere
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Here, there, everywhere. Archive for October 2011. I never thought I'd voluntarily watch a bullfight, but when these (non-killing) ones were announced as part of the celebrations for Ollanta's town anniversary festivities, Iain and I figured, why not? At least they were having a good time? A few minutes after them come the matadors (in pink socks! And also a clown. Finally, the first bull is eventually coerced into the ring. Waving of colored flags commences. Or just jumping over. Eventually the bull is ...
