I haven’t spoken about young Miss Arriba Mordida Heise very much since Christine and I welcomed the tiny 2 pound, six inch long kitten into our condo back in mid September 2017. Cats weren’t allowed in our condo and as this is a publicly viewable blog that I put my real name on, you do […]

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Surprisingly, there’s only about three months left of our time abroad, living in Panama. With Christine on a teacher’s schedule, we don’t have much time to get away from the city and travel internationally – but in devoutly Catholic, Latin American countries, Easter can provide that opportunity for a vacation!
Our original plan was to put […]

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It’s 12:30 in the morning at the Houston International Airport, and I’m 10 meters from the locked door to the KLM crown lounge, staring wistfully at the “will return at 6am” sign being held in the hands of the smiling blue-suited cardboard cutout of a KLM flight attendant. I do remember agreeing and accepting that […]

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What a great little mini-vacation right before going home for Christmas! Christine and I just returned from four wonderfully relaxing days in Medellin, Colombia – a one hour plane ride from Panama City. We’d been hearing great things about the place for the past four months here and I’d always wanted the chance to visit […]

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I had some free time this evening so was finally able to get around to getting some nice pictures from my Panasonic LX-5 uploaded to the blog. Every single article has had the weird mobile-app caused formatting fixed, I’ve corrected a lot of typos that not having a spell checker running caused, and most importantly, […]

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After the unpleasant circumstances of my prior blog post, it was nice to meet a friendly face back in DAR. Our hotel, Triniti, was staffed by a pleasant Zambian employee named Xavier. In case you didn’t know, Zambia is one of those African countries that’s adopted English as their native language, so our apologies about […]

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