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Continue reading →: Roads to nowhere
Roads play a vital role in the development of any country – without them, no goods can be transported, whether agricultural or industrial, whether to local markets or for export. A number of academics have demonstrated and quantified the importance of roads for reducing poverty. Moreover, bad roads are bad for tourism. And so in…
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Continue reading →: Celebrating a loss: how Guayaquileños can find reason to celebrate even when their soccer team loses a match!
A couple of weeks ago we spent the weekend with some family friends at their beach house. To get anywhere on the coast from Quito easily, you fly to one of a few coastal cities (in this case my favorite — Guayaquil) and drive an hour or two. This is…
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Continue reading →: Land of Volcanoes
On Saturday, Bruno and I climbed one of the many volcanoes that surround our home. Living in the shadows of volcanoes is a difficult feeling to describe. We can see seven on a good day from any point in the city, but there are at least 30 close enough flatten us…
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Continue reading →: Ambiguities and Adages
This is a post about language and life, because the words and styles of speech available to you influence your very ideas and expressions. Two very notable differences between Spanish and English are: Spanish is more ambiguous; sentences are in passive voice, and often lack subjects! Spanish is spoken more…
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Continue reading →: An Ecuadorian Hero Lost at 140 years
Good Bye Lonesome George. I got to meet Lonesome George briefly in The Galapagos in February. He was very handsome, for a giant tortoise, and he was the last of his kind. Every island in the Galapagos has a different, unique, subspecies of tortoise-differences that contributed to Darwin’s theory of evolution- but George was the only one to have survived…
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Continue reading →: Foreign Residency on the 4th of July
For Independence Day, I’m celebrating one year of Ecuadorian citizenship and residency, and Bruno is joining me. I found it ironic last year that I ended up finalizing my Ecuadorian citizenship on the 4th of July, and received my national ID card and Ecuadorian passport the next day. Now in 2012, Bruno is celebrating…
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I started this blog while living as a single expat more than 20 years ago. Now with husband and two kids in tow I’m keeping the adventures alive. Follow along for travel tips and life detours!
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