Tag: San Jose
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MGY (“Miggy”) Gettin’ Jiggy With It
I was right then and I’m right now: gap years, as well as youth, are wasted on the young. I knew this at the ripe old age of 23. In early June 2000, I headed to DFW airport with nothing but a huge travel backpack, about to board a plane for a trip to Europe.…
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Mo Moments
Let me be very clear: Mo Moments are absolutely NOT the same as Kevin Moments – if you’ll recall that scenario. The only similarity between the two is that I have to regulate my emotions, but the set of emotions involved in each respective “moment,” are completely different from each other. Is either one better…
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In the Heart of the Real Jungle, and the Urban Jungle
“The wilderness is a place that every believer has to experience to be molded for their divine purpose.” E’yen A. Gardner I don’t exactly know what Armin was trying to tell me Friday morning, because of his rapid dialect and my limited brain cells trying to grasp it; and, because I was sobbing and hugging…
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Sundays in Paradise
Sundays can be real fuckers. Before this journey it was because I was anxious and unhappy to start the corporate America work week each Monday. When I lived on an island in Belize it was because we had an increase in humans then and the tourists went apeshit on the weekends. Now, I honestly can’t…
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Jungle Art
Since the deed is done and I won’t argue or negotiate on any of my life choices these days, I will just tell you about the experience. It was very cool. I wish all of the times that I got tattoos before this could have been as pleasant as my time spent getting one a…
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Jungle Bugs
I thought I wrote about giving Mo medicine last week for “bugs in his butt” (worms), but maybe that was just me sending a bunch of text messages to friends letting them know I drugged the cat. Well, I did. It was very evident from almost the first week I knew Mo that the likelihood…
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Head Over Heels for the CMO
I’ve been under the weather just a bit these last three days with some sort of mild stomach issue. It has made me a little weak, a little stomach pain, minor stuff, but I’m not myself and not able to wander all around the jungle and the beach like I usually do. It could be…
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All That Plus a Bag of Chips
When I was traveling this past October with Anna, my friend from London who I met in Belize, we ate many of our meals together. In my opinion we had some of our best talks over these meals, and even though we only knew each other for two weeks before embarking on the trip, we…
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The Blue Cheese Incident
aka Blue Cheese and Gold Swimwear There is a rainy season in all of Central America but the skies will open up and flood you at any moment, even if the weather forecast says it’s sunny out. We went through such an intense rainy period in Caye Caulker I wasn’t sure it would ever stop.…
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Public Transportation & Prophylactics
As usual, there were completely different thoughts flowing on the page. I have since gotten distracted by a memory from last month that I found highly amusing but haven’t shared. If I didn’t talk to strangers I’d miss out on half of my content, possibly more, and this is no exception. When it became clear…
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Love Bites..& Stings
I learned a new sentence in Spanish last week: “Me picó una abeja en la planta del pie.” I’m expanding my limited intermediate Spanish fluency one sentence at a time (remember the doorknob and pliers conversations?), a fluency level I now call, “element-ermediate.” New word, made it up. Why not? Some moments I really know…
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Everywhere and Nowhere
“You are only free when you realize you belong no place – you belong every place – no place at all. The price is high. The reward is great.” Maya Angelou I did not wish upon a star last week, I wished upon the full moon and a tree of monkeys. A few days ago…
Pixie in Paradise 