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The Red Menace Abroad: La Purisima
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The Red Menace Abroad. Saturday, December 8, 2012. At this time last year, we'd only been in Nicaragua about 5 weeks, so I was pretty much brain-dead when it came to participating in any Nica holidays. Not so this year! Thanks to a very good friend, the Mini-Menace and I were invited to celebrate La Purisima. Here is.well, really awful. I'm sorry, but there's just no way around it. No street names, and directions are based on landmarks that may or may not still exist? With no problems at all. After we sa...
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The Red Menace Abroad: Happy Independence Day!!
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The Red Menace Abroad. Friday, September 14, 2012. One of the many things I love about living abroad is the fact that the Embassy observes U.S. federal holidays as well as host country holidays. Today is the commemoration of the Battle of San Jacinto, aka Nicaragua's Independence Day. The organizers also arranged for a dance troupe from one of the local high schools to come and present several traditional Nicaraguan dances. The view from the back side of Casa Grande. The back side of Casa Grande. DIPLOMA...
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postcards from Transnistria | towels packed, will travel
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Towels packed, will travel. By towelspacked on August 3, 2015. The thin strip of Moldovan land on the left bank of the Nistru River holds an undeniable fascination for Western visitors, who long to see its still-venerated Soviet symbols with their own eyes. Even the prominent Lenin statue, which stands in front of Tiraspol’s Supreme Soviet building has a counterpart in Chisinau. The same sports director who had greeted D on his previous visit to KVINT. After the tasting, we walked around the center of Ti...
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too hot to handle | towels packed, will travel
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Towels packed, will travel. Too hot to handle. By towelspacked on June 12, 2013. The air, hot and thick like a woolen blanket, enveloped us as soon as we opened the car doors. It may have been close to 8pm, but the temperature at the aptly named Stovepipe Wells hovered close to 100 F. If we had jumped the gun in the Sierra Nevada. A few weeks before the official start of the tourist season, then we were definitely late to the party in Death Valley. Larr; the scenic route to Death Valley. Being a lover of...
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rafting the Nile | towels packed, will travel
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Towels packed, will travel. By towelspacked on August 19, 2012. To Red Chilli Hideaway, Kampala’s most popular backpacker hostel, and claimed the last seats on a bus overflowing with eager tourists for the hour-long ride to Jinja. A version of this story will appear in the next issue of ArtLife. Nairobi folks, check it out! Larr; triumphant return to the seven hills. I think I would have been with your friend in the safety boat :). August 21, 2012. August 21, 2012. Leave a Reply Cancel reply. The views e...
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the end of the road | towels packed, will travel
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Towels packed, will travel. The end of the road. By towelspacked on July 17, 2013. Like all good things, our trip too came to an end. After a full day in Big Sur. We arrived in Santa Cruz just as the sun set. The next day — our last in California — we drove up to San Francisco. S caught up again with Amira. We covered a lot of ground during our three weeks in California:. 14 — The number of national parks. 9,100 feet — Gem Lake. Is the lowest point we visited. Nearly made us wilt. On either side of o...
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flying fifteen | towels packed, will travel
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Towels packed, will travel. By towelspacked on July 29, 2015. This summer marks fifteen years since D first picked up a disc and started playing ultimate frisbee, a trajectory that has taken him from his New England college team to pick-up games in Spain and Costa Rica, tournaments throughout East Africa. And most recently the role of field captain for Moldova’s Flying Mamaligas. After an uncompetitive 10-0 victory over Gamble, a recently formed all-female team from Kyiv, the Flying Mamaligas regrouped a...
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All Over the World: October 2014
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All Over the World. Friday, October 31, 2014. Am in Lima, Peru for a couple days of meetings. Managed to duck out for an evening stroll in the Miraflores District, and found some delightful venues; all along the Pacific waterfront is an ambling malecon, with fountains, lights, churches and a large 3 story mall. Being such an urban wonk, I am very impressed with the scale and elegance of the oceanfront redevelopment! More photos to come. Happy Halloween from Peru! Where they take Halloween VERY seriously!
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