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Read more: 151. Sending back what the optimist ordered151. Sending back what the optimist ordered
I have been to Fiji eight times. Eight. Not once did it rain more than what we all know as a sun shower. I want that on the record before I tell you what Samoa did to us. This trip was a gift. Literally. Five years ago, the Latino left Argentina, left his family, his job,…
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55. On giving thanks
Read more: 55. On giving thanksWe all have a lot to be grateful for I’m sure. I know I do. And in the main, I’m pretty good at counting my blessings. But being in this Buddhist country, the opportunities to pause a while are many. Little temples with serene Buddhas rest on every corner, and rarely is someone not taking…
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54. Accommodating me.
Read more: 54. Accommodating me.This place smells. We’re staying at a place called Elephant Reach, or should that be Retch? It’s not an unbearable smell, just kind of an eu de two star that permeates the sweet jungle air. I think it’s a combination of cheap motel soap (smells the same all over the world that I can tell)…
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53. Next time I get no action for a couple of weeks, maybe I won’t call it a drought.
Read more: 53. Next time I get no action for a couple of weeks, maybe I won’t call it a drought.
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52. Does my bum look big on this?
Read more: 52. Does my bum look big on this?Today we did what you do in Sri Lanka. We went to an elephant orphanage, we rode on the back of one through the jungle and down a river bed, and we dodged the men hawking t shirts with an elephant’s bum on the front. Does someone actually buy these tshirt? I guess…
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51. This morning’s other view.
Read more: 51. This morning’s other view.
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50. Sleep is overrated.
Read more: 50. Sleep is overrated.We leave for Yala National Park in a few hours, and we arrived in the dark last night (thanks to the slow slow train). I don’t want to miss a minute of this. The view from our room, 6am, 98 Acres Hotel, Ella.
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