Moringa – a simple leaf food

Though I did not eat in a lot of local homes in The Gambia, when I did it was always eating from a common bowl of rice with something poured over it, usually some vegetable with root-vegetables in the majority, fish or more rarely chicken. But the most lasting image was the poor family that …

New Wall Mural Atenas Central

This vacant lot looks like it is being made into a parking lot and if so, parkers will have the colorful mural on one side of where they park. We don’t have a lot of parking lots in Atenas with the old-fashion expectation of parking on the street, but as we grow and more people …

Perfect Weather Here & Horrible Politics There

WARNING: Please Don’t Read if Politics Offend You!   The header photo above is Bribri Watsi Waterfalls, Puerto Viejo de Talamanca, Costa Rica where I was two weeks ago. Warmer there than Atenas. El Mejor Clima del Mundo = The Best Weather in the World That is the Chamber of Commerce slogan for the small …

Bribri Indigenous Village Watsi – 1st Stop: Shaman

Yesterday I joined an all day tour Terraventuras Bribri Culture, where me and two ladies from Spain spent the day in an indigenous village near Puerto Viejo including first the Shaman, then medicine man (I got herbal medicine for my diarrhea), a plant study hike in forest, chocolate harvesting and production demonstration, indigenous lunch of …