Archive for August, 2008
Sunday, August 31st, 2008
Visa Shuffle
Boy have Chris and I been procrastinating lately! It’s just so easy to start a project in the morning, and by noon you’re drenched in sweat and have to stop for a couple hours. Then of course it’s close dinnertime, and the whole process starts over again the next morning. We did make a trip [...]
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Thursday, August 28th, 2008
Sounds at Sea
During one of our morning tours of the weather sites, we ran across a division of the NOAA (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration) that listens for sounds at sea using the Navy SOSUS network (Sound Surveillance System) and autonomous underwater hydrophones. This one, recorded in the middle of the Pacific is referred to as “the [...]
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Tuesday, August 26th, 2008
The Great Divide
I’m struck by the generousity of the people of Panama. Like I mentioned, there is a bit of a real estate frenzy going on here in Bocas, but yet the locals here are exceedingly accommodating, which I find incredible given the rudeness I’ve witnessed. The biggest thing I see is the lack of Spanish spoken. [...]
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Wednesday, August 20th, 2008
Children
I guess I didn’t scare off those kids afterall. Here they are with their mother, Yamantina, bringing us ‘Johnny Cake’, small, flat buns made out of wheat flour with a hint of coconut. Yamantina and Kids
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Wednesday, August 20th, 2008
Post by Email
We can now make posts from anywhere via our SSB radio! Yeah! Of course now we have to make more posts.
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Friday, August 15th, 2008
How’s Our Spanish?
We’ve taken a few Spanish classes and now we’re studying on our own using this flash card software, JMemorize . But like most languages, Spanish is subtle. I didn’t write about this before, but when we arrived in Cuba, we needed to refill our propane tanks. So while we were checking into the country, I [...]