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Michigan
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Upper Peninsula, Canada
As we ventured into the seemingly untouched expanses of the upper Peninsula something seemed a miss. We strolled the beach in Mackinac city, in the shadow of the great mackinac bridge, something seemed off. As we went to sand dune beach and then strolled the shores in Naubinway, I couldn’t help but notice that things were very different.… continue reading
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Grave Times for the Great Lakes.
Da Nang
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Life
Vietnam
The Domestication of Time
It had become apparent that my time in Vietnam was going to be, at least for the moment, indefinite. The local people’s council was not making my ability to secure our proper documents an easy task by any means. I had secured our apartment on a day to day basis and taking full advantage of our extended time together, Diá»…m and I settled into a wonderful routine of daily walks to the mart, trips to the market and dinner at home most evenings.… continue reading Read More
Da Nang
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Life
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Vietnam
After an incredible evening we retired to the apartment where the floor had erupted into quite a flat party. The festivities carried on into the wee hours of the night. Over the course of the evening guests came and went. So I took some time preparing a few treats for our rotating circle of friends on the floor.… continue reading
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The Honeymoon
Da Nang
Food
Life
Vietnam
What an incredible process. Primarily fun and new and exciting, somewhat bureaucratic and painful. Traditionally in Vietnam, the wedding photos come well before the ceremony. This is done for many reasons. One, I’m assuming, is that no one buys dresses here as it is an exorbitant and excess purchase.… continue reading
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The Wedding Festivities
Da Nang
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Life
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Vietnam
Tom, Jerry and the Mallrats.
Diá»…m and I went out for a little breakfast at a nearby restaurant and it was a beautiful scene. We sat in the cooler morning breeze as the rain had returned and the temperature was much more bearable outside where there was a nice coastal breeze.… continue reading Read More
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Hoi An
Life
Travel
Vietnam
As I’ve discussed previously the heat is blistering here. In Southeast Asia one of the many beautiful things that is either directly or indirectly caused by an attempt to avoid the sun are night markets, and Vietnam boasts some of the best.… continue reading
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The Night Markets and Returning To Há»™i An
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Isla Mujeres
Life
Mexico
Travel
Playa Centro and Taqueria Erika
After a couple of intense days of exploration and adventure it was time to slow things down. We were, after all, in paradise and it seemed a waste to rush it all away. We slowly got ourselves up, in no hurry to do anything, as all of our scheduled events had been fulfilled.… continue reading Read More
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Isla Mujeres
Life
Mexico
Travel
A Sunrise, Some Art, and an evening in the neighborhood.
After falling asleep very early the night before, I awoke around 5:45 to a quite morning. The sun rises at closer to 7 and I wanted to catch at least one. The sun rises on the ocean side of the island about a block from our apartment and unobstructed.… continue reading Read More
Chapultepec
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Life
Mexico
Mexico City
Puebla Nuevo
San Guillermo
Travel
Oh, how I go back to the place I was first lost.
Mexico has such a potent presence in my psyche. She was the first place I saw a structure thousands of years old, the first place I lost myself in a world completely foreign from my own, the first time I walked the streets of a city with 32 million inhabitants where the majority were impoverished.… continue reading Read More
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Isla Mujeres
Life
Mexico
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The day she’s been waiting for.
I awoke on this our second morning and I knew this was the day. Our entire trip began with one simple request many months ago. I asked Maggie sometime last year what she wanted her big trip to be for the summer.… continue reading Read More
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History
Isla Mujeres
Life
Mexico
Nature
Travel
I awoke just before dawn and stepped outside to see our small Colonia street begin to wake up. Off the terrace, I could see a woman sweeping the sidewalk in front of her doorway. Another headed off to work. Further up, headlights lit up as a motorbike purred to life and rolled down the otherwise quiet street.… continue reading
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Sharks, Turtles and Iguanas oh my!
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Da Nang
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Vietnam