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Introducing IncidentsOfTravel.org!
Thanks to the success of my Kickstarter campaign I am the proud new owner of a http://www.IncidentsOfTravel.org, the new site for my same old blog. As of today all new content will be posted there. If you were a subscriber by … Continue reading
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Tagged .org, blog, blogging, crowd funding, crowdfunding, GoDaddy, Kickstarter, migrate, new blog, subscribe, Wordpress
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Kickstarter Update
We Made It! I can’t believe that it took about 18 hours to fund the whole project. Thank you Duke, Mom, Cousin Jeff, Jacob, Aaron, Uncle Stu, and Matt T for contributing. I am retaking the GMAT on Friday so I am … Continue reading
Posted in Peace Corps, Third Goal
Tagged blog, competition, crowd funding, crowdfunding, donate, donations, entrepreneurship, entrepreneurship competition, Kickstarter, Wordpress
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San Juan de Oriente
Not the best of videos, so I’ll embellish a bit. After the GMAT on Friday, I headed back to my training town for the weekend. It was rainy and cool, which for a Leones like me right now is like … Continue reading
Posted in Photography, Vlog
Tagged art photography, artisans, ceramics, Chikungunya, family, GMAT, Masaya, Nicaragua, photography, pottery, pre-Columbian, pre-Columbian art, pueblo, San Juan, San Juan de Oriente, town, training town, video blog, video log, village, vlog
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La Asunción de María
It’s been a whole year already. Today was the Gritería Chiquita again. Legend has it that 67 years ago (or maybe 68, but who’s counting anyway?) Cerro Negro volcano had been erupting for 15 straight days, the roofs couldn’t support … Continue reading
Posted in León
Tagged altar, assumption of mary, candy, Gigantona, Gritería Chiquita, Griteria, Halloween, heaven, music, noise, Purisima, trick-or-treat, trick-or-treating
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Pizza & Art
About an hour south of León there is a small sea-side fishing town called El Tránsito. And ten years ago, a an American woman founded a center called “El Tránsito Centro de Artes,” or “El Tránsito Arts Center,” (ETCA) in … Continue reading
Posted in Peace Corps, Second Goal, Work
Tagged art, art center, artesenal pizza, beach, brick oven, brick oven pizza, climate, dreams, dry, El Nino, embroider, embroidery, fish, fishing, ocean, Pacific Ocean, personal goals, philanthropist, philanthropy, pizza, pizza art, pizza oven, rain, rainy season, savings, sew, sewing, turtle eggs, turtles, women, womens' collective, womens' cooperative, wood oven
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Bizarre Foods: Nicaragua
I assure you, this makes Nicaraguan cuisine seem far more interesting than it actually is:
Posted in Third Goal, Vlog
Tagged Bizarre Foods, cuisine, gastronomy, Nicaragua, Travel Channel, video blog, video log, vlog
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Do We Have to Go Shoes Shopping?
Last year, when I was on the final leg of my pre-Peace Corps Round-the-World Use All the Points You Acquired While Consulting Before They Expire Tour in Australia, my friends Mel and Kathy decided to take me on a beach … Continue reading
Posted in Incidents of Travel Past
Tagged Australia, beach, Cinderella, friends, gold, Italy, peninsula, rugged, shoes, shopping, Sorento
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