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Free bananas
Glad to be out of Maracaibo, we crossed a bridge to venture across the entire country. We stopped at a farmers market to get coffee and fruit. The owner was very nice and didn't charge us for the two bananas we had...by the way much sweeter and better than any bananas you find in the US. Today we covered a large section of Venezuela, passing through Barquisimeto, where ...
Lifes a beach in Venezuela
... with them, it was fun. We got their contact info and we plan to meet up with them further on down the road.
The next day was a real travel doozy with consecutive bus-car-bus-bus-bus combo of over 24 hours to reach our destination. You have to take a car for the three hour drive across the border into Venezuela. It is hilarious that literally all of the cars in this part of Colombia and Venezuela are those big old (70's?) boat-style "Uncle Buck" cars. As we ...
Stop #56
Today we were able to skype with two MPCS parents who were on a mission trip to Venezuela. One of the mothers on the trip was the mother of a student in Ms. Robillard's classroom, so they joined us for the skype. Since they did not have a lot of "skype experience" we allowed them to ask the questions. ...
Maria lionza
i really was interested in the maria lionza rituals to experience another different way of believing.
chivacoa is a pretty uninteresting little city that consists of many commercial and religious equipment stores.
at the maria lionza mountain, where i arrived in the early morning (i think i was nearly the first one) i found a couple of shacks, two ...
Stop #29
Our skype this morning was with Mr. Akin who is currently in Venezuela. He has been there all week working with seminary students. The weather today in Barquisimeto was quite hot...in the 80s, and it was slightly cloudy. It looked absolutely beautiful there! We were able to see the seminary students in the background as he was skyping with us. There was a translator who was translating our ...