Well I’m long overdue to write about our final day on the trail. This final day is somewhat anti-climactic. It’s across the most dry, flat, and uninteresting part of the island. The full path along the coast, according to what we heard, went past the airport and had little to offer in terms of scenery….
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Ruthin, Bodnant Garden, and Bingo!
OK, today’s post is going to be a long one, I hope you can stick it out! I do think the end is worth it. And today I’m trying to include some videos in my posts. I did a lot of driving yesterday, so I tried to keep today’s journey a little shorter. I started…
A language-learner’s lament
Last time I tried to learn a language, we used card catalogs in the library, phones had a cord, and Kurt Cobain was alive. To study Spanish almost required taking a class (though I suppose learning by book or cassette tape were options). My classroom learning in the early nineties was mostly worksheets, and lots of…
That time I incinerated chemical weapons for a living* (*Almost)
You work in Antarctica, and you meet all sorts of people with all sorts of crazy jobs. And the craziest of them all, and the one that I actually interviewed for and was offered, was working on Johnston Atoll, incinerating chemical weapons. I’m sorry, what? You might say. Where? All great questions.
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