Archive for January, 2008
Sunday, January 13th, 2008
The ship carrying our Fuso, Seaboard's Thor Nectar, arrived late morning on Saturday, 12 January.
Thor Nectar
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Monday, January 7th, 2008
Have you ever been in a new city, in a new country and done something that broke every safe traveling rule you’ve ever been told or learned?
Have you ever been in a new city, a gritty port city, a city renowned for danger around every corner, a city every ...
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Thursday, January 3rd, 2008
As my friends and family back in Iowa head to the caucuses today I am half a world away. This year, of all years, with the most wide-open and potentially interesting presidential campaign of my lifetime in progress, I am overseas and will miss the entire show.
Mercifully, today will ...
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Thursday, January 3rd, 2008
One of the little known upsides of foreign travel is exposure to obscure movies subtitled in the local language.
We’re holed up in a hotel in Santiago, Chile, waiting for our expedition truck & motorcycles to arrive via ship in Valparaiso.
One of the ways we’ve been killing time is ...
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