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Leap Days Two through Four

Posted by on Mar 23, 2012 in Blog, Explorer, Travel | 0 comments

Leap Days Two through Four

As I’m now two weeks past the point of being able to remem­ber enough about the bits and pieces of the trip to recount them suf­fi­ciently, I resort to pho­tos and tweets. I hardly pho­tographed the jour­ney on day two, save for a shot or two of the Mississippi… but here are a few from the lat­ter days of the trip. On the sec­ond day of the jour­ney I trav­elled to Wheaton, IL., where on the third morn­ing I rum­maged through Dorothy Sayers’ orig­i­nal, hand­writ­ten man­u­script of Gaudy Night at the Wade Center . I spent most of the third day avoid­ing vicious...

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How Could I Tell Her No?

Posted by on Mar 15, 2012 in Blog, Explorer | 3 comments

After post­ing an ad to Craigslist in search of an apart­ment for the month of April, I received sev­eral responses. I aver­age 3–4 responses every few days. Most are nor­mal but don’t quite fit the bill, and one or two are good can­di­dates for fur­ther con­sid­er­a­tion. My ad is very sim­ple and states clearly what I’m look­ing for — and peo­ple either make a suit­able offer or they don’t. Easy! My adver­tise­ment: Subject:$450 April Bedroom Needed in Alexandria: I am a female grad­u­ate stu­dent tem­porar­ily relo­cat­ing to the D.C. area. I am a...

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Leap Day One

Posted by on Feb 29, 2012 in Blog, Explorer, Travel | 2 comments

Leap Day One

I announced a few weeks ago on Facebook my then-upcoming move to Washington, DC. I’m headed to the one city in which the job mar­ket is boom­ing! The past sev­eral weeks of prepa­ra­tion have been hec­tic… final­iz­ing my time in KC, apart­ment hunt­ing in DC from a distance… Today, Leap Day, I departed Raymore, MO for Wheaton, IL — my first stop on the way to Virginia. … and I made it to Blue Springs, MO. Today was a decid­edly tedious com­edy of errors. I man­aged to care­fully and intel­li­gently stuff nine boxes, two plas­tic tubs, three tote bags, a card table,...

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How to Register with Aduana in Bolivia

Posted by on Apr 6, 2010 in Explorer, Missionary | 0 comments

Bolivian Law now requires all importers to reg­is­ter with Aduana. An importer is defined as any­one receiv­ing an inter­na­tional delivery/package, and is fur­ther defined by habit­ual importer and occa­sional importer. Habitual importers will require a fun­dem­presa reg­is­tra­tion. The fol­low­ing step-by-step process applies to occa­sional importers liv­ing in Cochabamba, Bolivia. The reg­is­tra­tion process should be very sim­i­lar regard­less of city, but all geo­graph­i­cal ref­er­ences are spe­cific to Cochabamba. The dead­line for this...

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Journey to Jail, part three

Posted by on Aug 3, 2009 in Explorer, Missionary | 3 comments

Essentially, I have no passport but I am in a foreign country.

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Journey to Jail, part two

Posted by on Aug 2, 2009 in Explorer, Missionary | 1 comment

I asked him what would next happen. He stated that, "You will show us your documents. Or, we can hold you for eight hours. Then you will go to jail."

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