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Travel makes one modest, you see what a tiny place you occupy in the world. ~Gustave Flaubert Above is one of my photos of The Grand Canyon, Arizona, USA. My home continent may eventually have the most trips and/or photos because this is where I was most of my life and there is so …
Last year after Christmas I took the potted Poinsettia I had had inside and planted it in my garden. When I recently asked my gardeners to “thin out” my garden, well . . . they really thinned it out including the removal of my poinsettia which was not doing well anyway. So today I looked …
I plan to write about the overwhelming emotions when I first arrived in Dakar, Senegal for the beginning of my 3 years in the Gambia – all the people, expectations, and challenges that were clouded by cultural and language differences that I was unsure I could navigate. Then I will tell about those many meeting …
That’s my new Kindle Fire HD 8 above beside a real book I’m also reading. It is my second Kindle ever and 1 inch taller which does make the print a little larger and easier to read, but there are some things I don’t like as well as on my old 5-year-old Kindle. First, the …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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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 …
Continue reading “Bribri Indigenous Village Watsi – 1st Stop: Shaman”
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