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Sunday, May 13th, 2007

Oh, the wonders of civilization. If you’ve never missed them, you don’t even know what they’re worth. But, let me assure you, they’re worth a lot:

Warm showers — you don’t know what you’re talking about unless you’ve ever showered in freezing cold mountain water pumped directly to your shower from above 4,000m (~13,000 ft) without [...]

Translating Turkish

Wednesday, March 28th, 2007

The most absurd things will happen to you when you are traveling — I mean, tell me the following doesn’t seem like some kind of weird movie or theater concoction: we buy tickets for a bus trip from La Paz — the capital of Bolivia — to Arica — the northernmost city of Chile. We [...]

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