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Dec 3, 2012
3 min

Jamaica Revisited

For a while now I’ve promised Larina I’d show her around Jamaica. It’s likely that had I never spent time as a volunteer high school teac...

Nov 7, 2012
2 min

Guestbook: SAIS Roommates

Back in Washington, Ray Ray shared a house with five other women, four of whom were classmates who began our grad program with us in Bolo...

Aug 7, 2012
2 min

Guestbook: La Famiglia

We just said farewell to my parents, my sister, my brother-in-law, and my nieces after a long weekend celebrating my parents’ 40th weddin...

Jul 9, 2012
3 min

Guestbook: Mews and the 4th of July

If you want a look at the footloose and fancy free lifestyle, look no further than Mews, a man so significant he can simply go by his sur...

May 29, 2012
2 min

Guestbook: More SAISers

I’m noticing a SAIS theme with our fist visitors here so far. Though it should come as no surprise that students of an International Rela...

May 1, 2012
2 min

Guestbook: Los Salvadoreños

More house guests to help us explore the country!

Mar 25, 2012
2 min

Mixtape

You read that correctly. Mixtape. It’s a subtle art, as John Cusack taught in “High Fidelity.” There are, in fact, a lot of rules. Depen...

Feb 20, 2012
3 min

Guestbook: Adam & Melissa

Less than 48 hours after arriving, we hosted our first guests. I hope, seeing as how we get to live in the Caribbean for the next two yea...

Feb 11, 2012
2 min

Bienvenidos a la República Dominicana

Our recent stint in DC having ended, we are off to the Dominican Republic.

Jul 15, 2011
1 min

Mt. Rainier

More travels and another National Park checked off the list. This week Ray Ray and I visited Mt. Rainier in the evergreen state of Washin...

Nov 1, 2010
1 min

Shenandoah

Just a quick entry to mark our first trip to Shenandoah National Park. It wasn’t much of a visit, just a quick day driving around and pic...

Jul 5, 2010
3 min

National Parks: In Praise of Our Common Ground

For Christmas Ray Ray gave me a coupon to tour three national parks in the West/Northwestern part of the country: Glacier, Yellowstone an...

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