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A Vanishing Breed
Yesterday, we had an opportunity to spend time with a rare species that once dotted the landscape, but today is rarely encountered in the wild: the unreformed, educated, American liberal. Today's lefty will make the case for universal health care while sipping organic fair-trade coffee and dreaming of their savior, President Hillary. The unreformed …
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Volcanic serenity
... of the violent events that led to its birth. The surface of the lake is perfectly still, a matte mirror for the heavily clouded sky, only rippled by the occasional movement of a boat or some birds that look like black ducks with white beaks. The green mountains surrounding the lake, the heavy clouds and the silence make up a landscape that looks almost unwordly.
At an altitude of below 4000m and only about half an hour's drive in ...
Otavalo Markets
... right under my hostel window.
The transformation was nearing completion when we exited at 8 am to walk to the animal market.
An hour here then to the fruit and ...
Lluvia, lluvia, y mas lluvia.
... after Ecuador and then Peru, I will be doing pretty well. At school, I've been practicing the play with the kids which we are going to be performing for all the parents and community next week (eek!). We are doing The GIngerbread Man so we have been making all of the costumes throughout the week and that has definitely helped the kids enthusiasm for the play...It actually came together pretty nicely yesterday. Now we just have to practice it ...
Almost a month down already...
... again this week, but things to note:
1) There was a tarantula the size of a man's hand in the house's bathroom this morning...Luckily I did not see it...this time. I just know it's waiting for me to go in there when it's dark and come down from the ceiling onto my head.
2) I went running a couple of times over the weekend and did not pass out from altitude sickness in the cornfield.
3) There are ...


