some things
Here's my little garden, with a flotilla of sticks designed (hopefully) to protect the little plants from Hugo (THAT MENACE).
I've planted pumpkin, corn, carrots, romaine and green leaf lettuce, kale, cauliflower, soya, and mint. The strawberries and blueberry bush returned and are blossoming, and I have seeds germinating (again, hopefully) for green onions, more carrots and lettuce and soy, some herbs and snow peas. Oh and I've got a little herb planter on the balcony. EXCITING.
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I've uploaded a good portion of my South America photos to flickr, but there's still a ton more to go..
Here are some llamas in Sajama National Park. Oh Bolivia, you do love your llamas. Llama meat and potatoes were on the menu for a good chunk of our trip. (That and Chef Boyardee warmed on our camp stove.)
And this is the Salar de Uyuni. We visited the area just at the right time, as the flooding of the salt flat from the rainy season had just started, so we were still able to cross most of it, and also we got to see it transformed into a giant white mirror!
This is the desert landscape we woke up to Christmas morning, after spending a chilly night camping in the truck at an elevation of 4500 metres.
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We are in the very early stages of planning our Koreas trip. We've done a fair amount of reading and watched quite a few docs on the DPRK, but particularly after watching this I feel like it'll be difficult to hold my tongue with the guides we'd have assigned to us. Mind you, I think the reality that one wrong move could potentially send someone to a concentration camp should be enough incentive to keep my mouth shut. Man. It's going to be a such a mind fuck of a trip.
I've planted pumpkin, corn, carrots, romaine and green leaf lettuce, kale, cauliflower, soya, and mint. The strawberries and blueberry bush returned and are blossoming, and I have seeds germinating (again, hopefully) for green onions, more carrots and lettuce and soy, some herbs and snow peas. Oh and I've got a little herb planter on the balcony. EXCITING.
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I've uploaded a good portion of my South America photos to flickr, but there's still a ton more to go..
Here are some llamas in Sajama National Park. Oh Bolivia, you do love your llamas. Llama meat and potatoes were on the menu for a good chunk of our trip. (That and Chef Boyardee warmed on our camp stove.)
And this is the Salar de Uyuni. We visited the area just at the right time, as the flooding of the salt flat from the rainy season had just started, so we were still able to cross most of it, and also we got to see it transformed into a giant white mirror!
This is the desert landscape we woke up to Christmas morning, after spending a chilly night camping in the truck at an elevation of 4500 metres.
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We are in the very early stages of planning our Koreas trip. We've done a fair amount of reading and watched quite a few docs on the DPRK, but particularly after watching this I feel like it'll be difficult to hold my tongue with the guides we'd have assigned to us. Mind you, I think the reality that one wrong move could potentially send someone to a concentration camp should be enough incentive to keep my mouth shut. Man. It's going to be a such a mind fuck of a trip.