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Overdue Peru/Bolivia musings, and pictures!
First, to get the full experience of this post, please open this link in another window: http://www.huaynoperuano.com/huayno/. Leave open until you are done reading. I know, it’s a little late to be posting about the Peru/Bolivia trip I returned from several months ago. You see, when I first got back I wasn’t sure […]
Playing Farmer
Summer 2012 I find myself living and farming just outside of Ann Arbor, MI. I’ve been working here at Brines Farm, Dexter since I returned from Enlgand last fall; my boss Shannon Brines runs a winter CSA. What does that mean? Well, CSA stands for “community supported agriculture”. It basically means that the […]
Southwest England part III
Part 3: Odds and ends in the last week In the last section we had just left Cornwall, but that doesn’t mean our coastal journey was finished! We continued along the coastline through southern Devon and into Dorset, which I think of as more or less equivalent to New Hampshire. The main similarity is entirely […]
SouthWest England part II
Part 2: Cornwall ice cream home-stay and Cornish coastal driving We continued our trip into Cornwall, the farthest south west corner of England. You can probably figure out for yourself that according my my New England analogy, Cornwall is Maine–coastal villages, funny accents, pasties instead of lobsters, and a lot of nothing inland. We began […]
Overdue England Sept. 2011
Most of you probably were following my summer biostation blog: umbsgarden.wordpress.com, so you probably know I spent the summer working up at the U of M biostation in Pellston Michigan, growing food and inspiring people to eat kohlrabi, enjoy weeding, and the like. But that’s another story from another website. Following the summer session up […]
England Continued
Part II: The Lake District
Long over-due update
Writing from my farmhouse bedroom-for-the-week in Vlagtwedde, NE Nederlands… My days here are relaxed and filled with weeding, eating yummy Italian food, and trying to comprehend a book written for 10-year-old girls. Dutch 10-year-olds I mean! This is a kind of week long retreat from… my half year Europe retreat… The last month I spent […]
Phase II — defiantly enjoying decadence
I’ve spent the last two and a half weeks (about a week and a half longer than I had planned) trying desperately to turn off that annoying midwestern alarm that I should be doing SOMEthing useful… and just enjoying the opportunity to explore southern England, eat tasty home-cooked meals every day, and relax by a […]
Lelu and Janey go to Ireland
Somehow a couple months ago when Leana and I decided we’d travel together to the UK and Ireland, we had this idea that planning where to go, what to see, and where to stay would be easy — just show up, decide, and we’re good to go. Now after having spent about four weeks where […]
Home for Christmas
I remember last August, when the Sumac berries first began to redden, I saw it as the first sign of fall and the first indication of the coming holidays — soon I would be surrounded by family and old friends. That month, despite being in the midst of probably the best summer of my life, […]