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New EcoPoor project starts in Dar, Dhaka
AN EcoPoor project on lowincome urban people's access to basic services such as safe water and sanitation in Dar es Salaam and Dhaka, Bangladesh was launched over the weekend.
The project will identify institutional practices that can ultimately benefit over five million urban poor in the two cities, and tens of millions elsewhere.
Speaking in Dar es Salaam during a participatory exercise with communities at Hananasif and Manzese Uzuri suburbs, Dr Riziki Shemdoe of Ardhi University and Dr Manoj Roy of Lancaster University in the UK, said the project involves gathering information on how poor communities access basic services.
"This is a unique project involving South-South cooperation and which will involve communities in generating core knowledge for the research," said Dr Roy.
Professor Ferdous Jahan from BRAC University in Dhaka will pair with Dr Shemdoe as co-Investigators. The project also involves top UK social and natural science experts namely Professor David Hulme, Professor Clive Agnew and Dr James Rothwell of University of Manchester as co-investigators.
Dr Roy pointed out that co-production and collective action are viewed as essential building blocks of the institutional arrangements needed to sustainably expand access to basic services for the poor.
"This research will explore these institutional arrangements, focusing on services derived, and disservices resulting, from two important ecosystems - urban green and water structures - in low-income settlements in Dar es Salaam and Dhaka," noted Dr Roy who is the project's principal investigator.
The UK scientist further pointed out that the overall aim is to identify a set of policyrelevant design principles for the institutional arrangements necessary for producing and distributing ecosystem services that promote sustainable improvements in the wellbeing of the urban poor.
"Our research will also involve the media from the onset because we want developments on the ground to be delivered to policy makers," the Lancaster University scientist stressed while noting that often it's more important to invest in poor people's social services like water supply than other forms of direct aid.
Commenting on the uniqueness of the project, Dr Shemdoe said, observations made on the ground during the past week have shown that low-income communities of Dar es Salaam live in poor neighbourhoods with limited basic social services.
"The ultimate beneficiaries of our research are poor urban residents in Bangladesh and Tanzania. This includes the current over five million poor urban population and the tens of millions who will move to urban areas in the next few decades," he revealed.
Dr Shemdoe noted that researchers will co-produce knowledge about how their wellbeing strategies are linked to accessing quality services from urban green and water ecosystems, and the ways in which policies and institutions support or hinder such strategies.
"Ultimately, our target is policy makers who need to take action and address such shortcomings which will improve health and livelihoods of the poor urban population," said Dr Deusdedit Kibassa who is a key member of the Ardhi University team.
Under the project which will last the next two and a half years, involvement with grassroots and thinktank organisations in both cities will be an important component of our impact strategy.
The project is funded by the UK government through the Ecosystem Services for Poverty Alleviation (ESPA) research programme. ESPA aims to provide evidence of how ecosystem services can reduce poverty and enhance well-being.
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I was traveling through Vietnam with my then girlfriend Libby when walking through a backstreet we stumbled across this makeshift barber in Ho Chi Minh city
If you look closely you can see the clipper are attached to a car battery, the mirror is strategically positioned and there is even a hat stand for the customers.
Just love the texture on the wall… nice framing Mark – Love how the black bag is just hanging there!
nice life shot!
that's wonderful! i love the history of it!
Ingenious! Resourceful! No quitter!
Love these types of people!
Street photography at it's best……..great shot!
I love the splotches of random colour in this
Awesome capture
Brilliant find. The mask on the barber is interesting too. Great pic :) x
this is beautiful – the colors, the composition – just beautiful

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Learning to dive was in the front of my mind when I started planning my trip to southeast Asia. Friends had learned in Thailand and I had heard that it was one of the cheapest places to get certified. After some research, we headed towards Koh Tao, an island in the Gulf of Thailand. I was keen to get my Open Water certification, but my husband was not. He agreed to stay on shore and I signed up for the three day course.
My brain was stretched and challenged as I did my homework each night; I enjoyed learning new terms and pondering the science involved in taking a human body deep underwater. I was back in school and excited to learn about decompression sickness and the volume of the air in my lungs under pressure. Over those three days, I learned the skills I needed to stay alive and also realized a recurring dream I have of being able to breathe underwater. I made new friends and relied on them for my safety. Diving began to feel natural and, at the end of my course, I got my very own photo ID to prove that I was now a licensed diver. While having lunch with my group on that last day, I pondered where this new skill was going to take me.
Having my OW was nice, but what about deeper dives like wrecks? I wouldn't be able to dive past 18 meters and having a limitation on the kinds of dives I could do made me consider sticking around. Later that day, on an impulse, I signed up for my advanced course to spend two more days learning a few more skills and practice my buoyancy control and breathing. I dived a sunken wreck and did a night dive where I saw herds of porcupine fish and phosphorescence. In a classroom, I wasn't enthralled by the science of volume and pressure, but as I watched a raw egg cracked open at 30 meters depth, I marveled at the real world demonstration: holding its shape, floating weightlessly as if in space. After leaving Koh Tao, I started doing fun dives near the Koh Phi Phi islands and had a chance to see some amazing sea life. I practiced using my GoPro on dives and bought a red filter for taking photos and video at depth to bring back some of the red that gets lost the further down you go. There's still a lot of work to do and perhaps some new gear to acquire, but the opportunity to expand my photography to include underwater shots is also exciting.
Diving is a skill that lets me explore an entirely new part of a country and see things I wouldn't have been able to see before. I can wander the grounds of the ancient city of Sukhothai one week, and the next be face to face with a lionfish in the Andaman Sea. Who knows where this endeavor will take me?
Travelling might be all about discovery and abandoning our comfort zones. But at times, when your comfort zone is a club with some loud music, well, it's nice to know where to find it when you are abroad.
As a resident of Malaysia, I feel it is time to give justice to my acquired home talking about two places that host a plethora of local and international touring bands. They are both prominent Malaysian homes for the loudest kinds of music, and as such might not be ideal for everybody. But again, if it's about going in and out of "comfort zones", it might as well be great to get out of yours and discover some Malaysian loudness, after all.
Literally hidden at the second floor of a tattered building along Pengkalan Weld, about half a mile down the road from the main Jetty and facing the entrance of the Lee Jetty, this is the place to rock in Northern Malaysia. Check their show listings before you go because although they have a bar, it is not open every day. It's a real, do it yourself underground venue, where heavy metal, punk, death metal, alternative rock and heavy derivates spray the walls with sweat. The show room is decently sized and the PA quite OK for an underground enterprise: consider that in Malaysia, a country who forced a ban on black metal music in 2001, and whose Islamic party has given a hard time even to Elton John because he is openly gay, you cannot really get much better than this. Soundmaker is the place to rock away your early nights, as shows usually end by 12 am.
Soundmaker is also a recording studio and jam room, and recently opened a small hostel room. The novelty is, it welcomes travelling bands and musicians to stay and record their music at a fraction of western prices.
Rumah Api – Kuala Lumpur
In a place called the "fire house", you may only expect amplifiers to burst out sparks of white heat, and set your own eardrums on fire. If you know what a real punk house is, and I mean an independent space where DIY is the law, the ceiling is about to cave in, and sitting on torn car backseats slung on the floor a common practice, well, welcome to Rumah Api then. The only place in Kuala Lumpur that dares to object the city's rampant, over-constructed technological wealth and high-class-loving youth. A stone throw away from the Ampang LRT station in the northeastern part of the city, Rumah Api stands to KL as the CBGB's stood to early New York punk. Catch a dose of local and international punk, hardcore, crust, thrash and grindcore bands sweating – literally, as the only wall fan provided resembles a World War II airplane's engine – on the low stage, and mingle with the most alternative youth in the capital. This place has plenty of character, but you gotta have some too to enjoy it. Otherwise, this could come as kind of a shock.
MARCO FERRARESE is a metalpunk guitarist who travelled extensively and lived in Italy, the United States, China, Australia and Malaysia. Since 2009 he's been based in Southeast Asia as a writer, hardcore punk musician and researcher. He travelled from Mongolia to Australia in 2009, and hitchhiked from Singapore to Milano through Silk Road routes and the Middle East in 2012. He blogs at monkeyrockworld.com. Marco's first Asian pulp novel Nazi Goreng was published in November 2013 on Monsoon Books. Follow him @monkeyrockworld
As magical as the Grand Canyon is from the top, peering down into red and purple shades of rock so far down your eyes lose an ability to judge the distance, it is yet more magical from the very bottom peering up. Perhaps because of the feeling of accomplishment that comes from a journey down, and perhaps from a feeling of quiet, peaceful seclusion from the modern world.
Whatever the reason, it's well worth a trek down just to spend the night at the bottom in either Phantom Ranch or nearby Bright Angel Campground. It may not feel that way as you wade through the tedious reservation process for Phantom Ranch, but that is not the logistical detail I'll be going over in this post.
In this post, I'd like to give a little bit of insight for potential hikers trying to decide which trail to take, as there are 3 major trails leading down to the bottom, North Kaibob, South Kaibob, and Bright Angel Trail. Having hiked the entirety of each of these trails at some point, I'd love to give a hiker's perspective.
Bright Angel Trail
Distance to Phantom Ranch: 9.9 miles
Access points: Phantom Ranch and Grand Canyon Village at the South Rim
Bright Angel Trail is probably the easiest trail to recommend because of its frequent water stops and moderate distance. Hikers who are not interested in going all the way down to the bottom of the canyon can hike down to the Indian Gardens region 4.9 miles down instead.
But what this trail is especially good for is the journey back up, regardless of which trail you've taken down. While it's not the shortest of the trails we'll talk about, it is the shortest one with water stops. Both of these details are extremely important for an upward journey. Hiking up the canyon can take significantly longer than hiking down and can be far more fatiguing.
The atmosphere of this trail is interesting as well. It will lead you through a quintessential red-rock desert type of environment until you reach the lush area of the Indian Gardens. After this point, you descent towards the river and complete the last part of your journey walking alongside it.
South Kaibob Trail
Distance to Bright Angel Campground: 7.1 miles
Access points: Bright Angel Campground and Yaki Point along the South Rim.
I chose this for an ascending hike one year and it was the most difficult Grand Canyon hike I've done. It is steep, has no water stops, and leads you through a dry, winding cliffside that offers little relief from the sun at times. Hikers who choose this route should be very intentional and realistic about the supplies they pack with them. It is indeed a shorter hike, as the shortest of the trails we'll mention today, but the most strenuous one, so take this into account.
I recommend this trail mostly for descending. Particularly if a person is concerned about making it to the bottom in time for a scheduled dinner. (All meals at phantom ranch must be reserved and fall into a strict schedule). And while it's not impossible to use this trail for ascending, it's not to be taken lightly.
North Kaibob Trail
Distance to Phantom Ranch: 14 miles
Access points: Phantom Ranch and the North Rim Trailhead.
I chose this one to discuss last because it is my favorite, and I'd like to share a piece I wrote about it after hiking it last month.
But first, the logistical details: This trail is the longest of those mentioned today. Significantly so. And yet, it is not a strenuous 14 miles comparatively. It is not as steep, and the environment transitions frequently. There are plenty of water stops and as long as you are providing a realistic amount of time for the hike (anywhere from 5 – 9 hours), this is a wonderful choice for a descending hike. Anyone considering this hike for the ascending trip should remember that ascending hikes take significantly longer than descending.
This is not a very popular trail, as the only trail leading up to the North Rim, but I'd like to reference the thoughts I made in a post last month to advocate for this trail as a favorite.
"The North Rim is quiet. If you stand and listen for a moment you don't hear the chatter of a high traffic tourist destination as you would on the South Rim. Instead you hear the wind through the pines. In fact, the beginning of your trek does not feel like quintessential Canyon red rock dust and desert. Instead you're in a gentle pine forest. In fact the first stretch of the North Kaibab Trail hike begins in this setting until the vegetation shrinks back and you can see the height of the cliff you're standing on. The view opens up and you make your way down along cliffs into the floor of a side canyon. And then the landscape changes again. Every few miles, in fact, the landscape of the North Kaibab seems to change into something new as the canyon walls rise around you, layering back until the rim disappears behind the cliffs nearest your path.
These early miles of the trail find you descending through an ancient solidified display of the earth's history- a core sample of the layers of earth in front of your very eyes till you reach the most ancient layers of subtly glittering Vishnu Shist, so ancient it lacks any traces of organic, biological matter. This amazing artifact of geological history lines the later miles of the trail like gravel, kicked along humbly by the feet of hikers.
This is also where you reach a little canyon creek that slips like melted glass through desert rock and brings green life wherever it goes. Most of the remaining 7.2 miles of the North Kaibab follow this creek. As I looked at it, I wondered at how different it seemed from the forest creeks I grew up with in Ohio, clouded with decaying plant life and stirring up mud. This water, cupped by canyon rock seemed more pure and more lively. And the plants that line the banks are so foreign to someone who grew up far from the desert. Prickly, spiny, spindly little plants keeping themselves as inward as possible, not spilling out clumsily into one another like the leaves and grasses of the east. Orderly, linear plants.
The creekside portion of this trail levels out significantly and you find yourself anticipating each bend will reveal the little cabins of Phantom Ranch.
It's always further than you think. But I don't mind in that environment. Even tired and hungry, I'm happy to be there."
The air is unbreathable, hot, and terribly humid. The air conditioner perched at the top of the wall at my right is just an empty plastic shell that reminds me that there could be some extra comfort, if someone had cared to replace the wiring. Instead, rivulets of sweat pour down my forehead and temples, sliding down my spine and flowing over the small of my back, soaking into the elastic of my underwear. I had to take my shirt off to endure this first Indonesian live test.
"Cut the set short, I can't breathe…" Sam screams from behind the drums, his man-boobs twitch, lucid with sweat.
"Why man? They are loving it!" I answer screaming on top of amplifier white noise between two songs.
"I said cut it fucker, I can't fucking breathe! I am feeling sick! There's no air!"
OK then, roger.
This is the best travel I have done recently, hands down.
We are at the back of Khansa Studio's rehearsal room in Pamulang, somewhere in the sprawling suburbs of Jakarta, nestled between a row of halfstacks and a small melee of young Indonesian hardcore punk believers. They are probably twenty, but the room's so cramped it feels like they are hundreds, all blowing hot air in our faces. One has just finished walking up the wall to my right, supported by a bunch of other lunatics pushing him at the small of his back. From my perspective, I believe for a moment that the room is rolling sideways, and this guy's trying to run with it. When Sam hits the last of four strokes with his sticks, we launch into the last song of the night, and I wonder if this still makes sense. Looking at how the kids spin and jump and crawl on top of each other, forcing me to step back against the amps, I am tempted to say "yes". But reflecting on the fact that I am sweating as if I were playing guitar inside of a Finnish sauna, our drummer is having a respiratory crisis, and tonight – and for the rest of this tour – we will never get paid a single rupiah, my European heritage materializes with a hammer to smash the bubble of underground dedication right before my eyes. Why are you doing this, Marco?
I don't know. Probably because these days I only conceive traveling as a concoction of brutal anthropology, self-inflicted ruin and mind-numbing exploration of the weirdest fringes available in the world. But it does indeed make me feel good, for I know that I'm probably not the only one, but certainly one of the few, to have had this vision and this cross. Suddenly all of the problematic divides among travelers and tourists disappear, because they are not important anymore. I'm only trying to make my time on Earth meaningful to my own self, I guess. Is there anything wrong with it?
MARCO FERRARESE is a metalpunk guitarist who travelled extensively and lived in Italy, the United States, China, Australia and Malaysia. Since 2009 he's been based in Southeast Asia as a writer, hardcore punk musician and researcher. He travelled from Mongolia to Australia in 2009, and hitchhiked from Singapore to Milano through Silk Road routes and the Middle East in 2012. He blogs at monkeyrockworld.com. Marco's first Asian pulp novel Nazi Goreng was published in November 2013 on Monsoon Books. Follow him @monkeyrockworld
Earlier this year, I rode a Ural motorcycle and sidecar through Siberia, up 1800km of ice roads and ending in the Arctic Circle. It was one hell of a journey which taught me how to survive in extreme sub-zero temperatures. More importantly, it expanded my limits and showed me what I was capable of.
One of the most important lessons happened on the second night of the trip – our first attempt camping out. Now, I don't know about you, but I had never camped in extreme cold before. Sure – I had tested out my equipment on a -20C night in South Dakota, but there is a world of difference once you get below -30C. That night was mild, compared to the rest of the trip, but it still hit -32C.
So – we setup camp and tried to building a fire. We could make a lot of smoke, but couldn't get a strong fire blazing. Fortunately, with the help of a good MSR camp stove, we were able to boil enough water to fill our bellies with pelmeni. Around 9pm we called it a night. I was riding solo, so I had a tent to myself. Quickly I stripped down to base layers and stuffed the upper layers into my sleeping bag to keep them from freezing. After the long day, I fell asleep quickly.
Around midnight, I woke up and realized that I couldn't feel my toes. Now, one of my biggest fears was getting frostbite and loosing a few digits. I could feel the panic rising; but, after a few slow breaths, I was able to get it under control. I tried flexing my toes, but they wouldn't move. I took a moment to think about my options – get up and try to get my blood flowing? Aside from my feet, I was warm enough in the sleeping bag. I didn't know how much body heat I'd lose by getting out. I wasn't sure how well I'd be able to stand on my numb feet. Too many unknowns, so I decided to stay where I was and move my legs to get blood flowing. After a few minutes of that, my core was getting warmer, but my toes were still numb. Time for a different tack. I had just enough room in my sleeping bag to bring one foot at a time up within reach. I used my hands to manually flex my toes and warmed them up by contact. After a few minutes, I could feel them again and was able to move them just a bit. I switched feet and repeated.
Each time I would put a foot down to work on the other one, it would go numb again. I just couldn't seem to keep them going without working them with my hands. I kept at it. After I was sure eons had passed, I checked the time, only to be disappointed that only a few minutes had gone by. I began to think things through – I had several hours to go until the sun would come out and temperatures would begin to rise. Would I be able to make it until morning? Did I have another choice?
So that eternally long night, I kept at it – switching feet every few minutes and wishing I could fast forward to morning. I couldn't control time, though, all I had control over was my will to endure. I began to relax and just focused on the task at hand. Eventually, the sun began to rise. As soon as the inside of the tent began to glow, I breathed a sigh of relief and knew that I would be okay.
I've been taught that lesson before – but sometimes a reminder is necessary. Relax, breath and just focus on what is right in front of you. Keep at it long enough and you'll eventually make it through to the other side.
Later on during the trip, I camped out in harsher temperatures (-43C) but had a much easier time. Partially I'd say it was due to my body acclimating the the environment and also because I learned a couple tricks — like filling a water bottle with boiling water and putting it at the bottom of your sleeping bag to warm it up. That definitely prolongs your comfort and allows you to get a bit of sleep – but trust me, either way, the mornings are still painful.
It's funny how that these moments turn into a fond memory. Time and distance do strange things.
Chris Plough writes and podcasts at oznog.com, where he shares stories and advice from his adventures and from the incredible people that he's met along the way. You can also follow him on twitter: @chrisplough.
We spent a couple of weeks researching Sulawesi and found very little information for independent travel on the island. Then, I lucked into Dodo Mursalim's contact details on a TripAdvisor forum.
Dodo turned out to be a gold mine of information and he bent over backwards to help us do Sulawesi our way.
He rented us his little house behind the mosque for a fraction of what the cheapest hotels in Makassar could offer, and it has a kitchen and washing machine! He arranged an 8 seater van rental for us for the price of a much smaller car through any of the agencies we'd contacted on the island (car rental on Sulawesi can be expensive!) and he was willing to let us self drive, which is not commonly done on this island, with terrible roads and questionable signage. He taxied us all over Makassar for three days out of the goodness of his heart, helped arrange our three days on Samalona island, and sent us off on our road trip armed with his recommendations for hotels in various towns and a list of phone numbers of contacts in different places.
Dodo has an almost uncanny network of friends and cohorts on Sulawesi.
Four separate times during our very unplanned journey around the island, complete strangers would walk up, shake our hand and say, "Mr. Dodo says, "Hello!" He wanted me to make sure you knew that his recommendation for a certain hotel is full… or can I help you with a guide… or do you need help finding…." He was attentive to the highest degree, calling to check in with us, calling ahead of us to be sure that the arrangements we had made (independent of him) and just mentioned in passing, were properly sorted and awaiting us suitably. We have never encountered a tour guide of his calibre anywhere in the world, but certainly not in the developing world, where we expect things to go a little haywire.
Nothing goes haywire on Mr. Dodo's watch; nothing.
He also does magic tricks, tells jokes, and speaks nearly perfect English. If you're inclined to an adventure on Sulawesi, have Mr. Dodo be your man on the ground in Makassar. He can arrange any journey you want, guided, or solo, and he'll take care of you like you've never been taken care of before.
Contact info for Dodo Mursalim
http://dodopenman.blogspot.com (visit this page and you'll see our picture and entry in his guestbook!)
About a week and a half ago my train pulled up to the platform in Tundla, India where a sea of Indian military men were waiting for it. There was a rush of commotion as we all pushed towards the doors- a commotion which only grew when we discovered all the doors were locked. The train sat there with its locked doors for 5 minutes while the military men grew angrier and angrier, beginning to bang on the doors with their fists, sticks, muskets, anything. I kept thinking that surely someone would open the door. We'd paid for tickets after all. We'd reserved cots for the overnight train.
Then, the train started to pull away without us. Hardly thinking, we rushed through the crowds to the one door that someone had managed to open a few yards away and with our heavy bags in hand, we jumped onto the moving train. The rush of frantic soldiers crowding behind us carried us like the current of the river onto the train.
I laid in my cot and felt what would have been homesickness if I had a home.
So my question is this: what do you do when this whole "travel thing" scares you, exhausts you, bewilders you in a way that leaves you in need of something secure? What gives a nomad security?
In attempt to wrestle with this question, I've come up with a list of 5 things that help me cope with the moments that scare me.
1.) Writing.
Writing is not only a great way to process your thoughts, it's also a way to record the feelings that may likely evolve over time. At one point in time I did this by keeping a travel journal, but my laptop has since replaced it. I have documents upon documents that I may never read again, but the act of formulating my thoughts was all I needed at the time. Not to mention, it helps me to see the experience as the story it will be tomorrow, when I'll feel it less dramatically and see it more logically.
2.) These are the times I'll make sure I can find a more secluded hotel with an environment I can really find relaxing.
Getting a hotel right in the center of activity can be wonderful when you've got the energy for it. But the exhausting moments leave me wanting space and quiet. As much of a clean slate as I can get. This has been especially true in a place like India. For this reason it's a great idea to have some kind of rainy-day fund of either money or hotel points.
3.) Something from home, even if it's McDonalds or Pizza Hut!
Never again will I judge a traveler for eating at McDonalds. (Is it sad that the McChicken is my home away from home sometimes?)
4.) Good Internet.
These days internet is the most basic necessity for contacting loved ones back home. The days of calling cards and pay phones are on the way out. This involves point number 2- finding a hotel you can relax in means, in my case, finding a hotel with good internet. Preferably this is in-room internet I can use while curled up in bed in my own space.
5.) A few days of nothing.
Sometimes the main attraction in any given destination is just not worth pushing your nerves past what they can handle. In our case, we found a quiet place in Katra where there happened to be a popular mountain temple. It was a very popular spot for Indian tourism… but we let it go. And I don't regret that. I needed some time to clean the slate and regroup.
These are some things that helped me get back on my feet and face the vibrant and intense world that is India again, despite the fear I felt at the thought of all the things that could have gone wrong in our impromptu train-hopping experience.
But I'm curious, what are the things that help you feel secure?
Nomads and vagabonds, and all long-term travelers are in a unique position of transient-ness with an almost ephemeral concept of home rather than a permanent one. This is at least the case for myself as well as a few other travelers I know. So we're faced with an interesting challenge when we need the kind of comfort a different person may find in their stationary routines and their permanent homes. So I'd like to learn from the creative ways other travelers have found comfort in moments of fear.
I am 15 minutes into my hike down the muddy little stream when a tree carving captures my attention. Sticky with sap and arcing brown across the bark, it seems to have been made recently.
I drop to my haunches and run my fingers over the design. After three days of living on the Indochinese outback without electricity or running water, I feel like my senses have been sharpened to the details of the landscape. I take a step back for perspective, and my mind suddenly goes blank.
The carving is a crude depiction of a skull and crossbones.
Were I anyplace else in the world, I might be able to write off the skull and crossbones as a morbid adolescent prank. Unfortunately, since I am in northwestern Cambodia, the ghoulish symbol can mean only one thing: land mines. Suddenly convinced that everything in my immediate vicinity is about to erupt into a fury of fire and shrapnel, I freeze.
My brain slowly starts to track again, but I can't pinpoint a plan of action. If this were a tornado, I'd prone myself in a low-lying area. Were this an earthquake, I'd run to an open space away from trees and buildings. Were this a hurricane, I'd pack up my worldly possessions and drive to South Dakota. But since I am in a manmade disaster zone, all I can think to do is nothing.
My thoughts drift to a random quote from a United Nations official a few years back, who was expressing his frustration in trying to clear the Cambodian countryside of hundreds of thousands of unmarked and unmapped mines. "Cambodia's mines will be cleared," he'd quipped fatalistically, "by people walking on them."
As gingerly as possible, I lower myself to the ground, resolved to sit here until I can formulate a course of action that won't result in blowing myself up. (more…)
I am writing from my sleeping bag in the Lima airport, getting ready to go to "bed" for the night on the food court floor. Today starts my two week trip to Peru, and I have an early flight to Cusco in the morning. In some ways I feel prepared (for instance right now I have a sleeping bag, ear plugs, and eye mask, while I see other struggling to sleep/fight sleep at food court tables), but in most ways I feel very unprepared for this trip. It was a spontaneous decision that myself and two girlfriends made just a few months ago, after finding ourselves on the same continent for the first time in over a year. Why not fly halfway around the world and hike Machu Picchu? I think a good bit of planning could have happened if we had really put our minds to it, but instead this will be an account of travel "winging it."
It seems that the more I travel, the less I prepare. This is good in some ways, but of course could result in some major inconveniences. When I first left for a round-the-world trip in March of 2012, all I could think about for months in advance was plan, plan, planning. I even committed to the decision to save money and leave everything behind a full year in advance. Today, I find myself running to my flight as they are paging my name, only vaguely knowing the name of the hotel I am staying, not knowing the exchange rate for the country I'm visiting, etc.
Here is a photo of the things I packed before I left in 2012:
Here is a photo of my preparation for this trip:
This picture is a good representation of my current attention to detail in planning. Not at the top of my game, and maybe not completely recommended, but also not completely detrimental to a trip. Sometimes you just have to jump in without a plan.
Thanks to some internet research we came to the conclusion that a few basic tasks were necessary prior to arriving in Peru: booking a specific trek with a tour company due to limited availability, booking some basic internal flights before the price jumped, and knowing where to find the llamas (apparently they are quite bountiful). Some trips to our favorite outdoor clothing stores fitted us with sturdy boots, warm gloves, and plenty of layers for the high altitude weather. We used the company Cuscoperuviajes for our Salkantay trek. They were a bit cheaper than a lot of the other companies out there, and the reviews we saw were positive.
And the plan is to meet in Cusco.
I have a unique situation where I absolutely completely loathe flying, every single time. Unfortunately it doesn't get better with experience. I also get anxiety and motion sickness on fast moving buses, and the thought of altitude sickness stresses me out. It's not easy to want to travel so often but to be so scared of your means to do so. Sometimes you find yourself thrown into a situation by no one other than yourself, only to love and hate it at the same time. You might find yourself on a plane to get to the one place you've always wanted to go, only to wish you could call the whole thing off to escape the sudden onset of rough turbulence at 35,000 feet in the air. Climbing a mountain for four days to get to a World Heritage Site sounds like a great idea until you realize you aren't really in shape for it and that you may suffer from altitude sickness and will be forced to ride on a disgruntled donkey along the edge of a cliff for hours on end. Travel has a way of pulling out the very best and worst of you, the most adventurous and the most fearful parts. But, you do it because you get something more out of it. You learn to depend on yourself in ways that you never thought you were capable. You have a new appreciation for where you are from, or maybe you find that you belong somewhere else. You meet people that inspire you to embrace life and adventure that you would have otherwise never met. Travel is one of the most enriching things you can do for yourself, and hopefully the people around you.
So all that said, here I am, waiting for an early flight, pushing all the anxiety I have to the bottom of my thoughts, and thinking about the positives. The photos I will take, the physical challenges I will overcome, and the new foods I will try. I'm thankful for my equally spontaneous friends and the chance to go see a new country and culture. Assuming I make it out alive, I'll be back with an update on how it all went.
Has anyone else been to Cusco or hiked the Salkantay? Any advice on what not to miss or important things to pack would be welcomed!
Last weekend, on a sunny Saturday morning at a local Seattle-area library, I kicked off the first of several ninety-minute "Travel talks" I plan to give this year. The seminar-style presentations, which I call "Traveling The Best of Europe Independently & On A Budget" will be free, presented at assorted libraries in the Seattle metro area.
I began doing these talks several years ago after answering the umpteenth question about how to travel independently in Europe (since that's my specialty), how to plan it, and where to go. I realized there was a hunger for this type of straight-up advice from a trusted source. Since then I've done several, and I'm always stuck by audiences' desire for useful tips and, more importantly, a much-needed infusion of "Hey, I can do this!" confidence.
Some have asked why I bother doing these talks when it's basically free work and free advice. My answer: Sharing my hard-won tips on budgeting, itinerary-crafting, and other how-to essentials is a joy. Moreover, it's a public service. More than just the mere nuts-and-bolts information, I've found that it's the message of "you can do it too!" that is truly valuable, no matter what destination you're discussing. Any guidebook will have a chapter on the basics needed to plan a trip and where to go, but it's a presenter's confidence and palpable love for the subject that can inspire someone to finally book that plane ticket.
So, if you're inclined to spread your knowledge and love of whatever destination you choose, please consider offering a ninety-minute "how to travel independently & on a budget to…" presentation at a local library. Impart your wisdom and fill the room with your enthusiasm for the places you're talking about. You might just motivate a reluctant adventurer to take the trip of a lifetime, and that is time well spent indeed.


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Striped Hat
Pattern #FP131
An Original Design By:Maggie Weldon
Beginner Skill
Size: To fit child: Finished Hat measures 15" around and 8" tall.
Materials:Yarn Needle; Worsted Weight Yarn; Blue (MC) - 1 ½ oz, 83 yd (42 g, 75 m);
White (CC) - 2 oz, 110 yd (56 g, 99 m);
4" square of Cardboard (for Pom-Pom).
Crochet Hook: Size H-8 (5.00 mm) or size needed to obtain gauge.
Gauge: 8 sc and 7 rows = 2".
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contrasting color |
sl st(es) |
slip stitch(es) |
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main color |
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yarn over |
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When instructed to join with sc, begin with sl knot on hook, insert hook in st or sp indicated, yo and pull up a loop, yo and draw through both loops on hook.
To Change Colors
Work last stitch before color change to last step, with new color yo and pull new color through remaining loops on hook. Drop unused color to wrong side. Do not work over unused color.
Row 1: With W, ch 30, sc in 2nd ch from hook and in each ch across. (29 sc)
Row 2: Ch 1, turn, working in back lps only, sc in each sc across. (29 sc) Drop W and change to B.
Rows 3-4: With B, ch 1, turn, working in back lps only, sc in each sc across. Drop B and change to W.
Rows 5-6: With W, ch 1, turn, working in back lps only, sc in each sc across. Drop W and change to B.
Rows 7-46: Rep Rows 3-6 ten times.
At the end of Row 46, finish off leaving long end.
Cut Cardboard 4" square. Wrap Yarn around square several times (see Fig. 1). Slip yarn off square and firmly tie a 12" piece around middle (see Fig. 2). Leave the tie ends long to attach the pom-pom. Cut loops at each end and trim to a smooth ball.
- Using long end and Yarn Needle, with wrong sidefacing, sew Row 46 to Row 1 to make a Tube.
- With right sidefacing, using Yarn Needle and Yarn, work a running stitch along sides of rows of one edge of Tube (top of Hat). Pull Yarn snugly to gather. Secure Yarn.
- Using long end of Pom-Pom and Yarn Needle, sew Pom-Pom to top of Hat.
- Weave in all ends.
- With right sidefacing, turn bottom edge of Hat up about 7 sts.
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Derby County manager Nigel Clough is to hold talks with Patrick Kisnorbo after the central defender impressed against Burton Albion on Saturday.Kisnorbo, 28, who has been released by Leicester, provided the only goal of the game for Chris Porter and rattled the bar with a header in the friendly. "Central defence is an area that we have to strengthen," Clough told BBC Radio Derby. "We'll be having a chat." But Clough will not be pursuing his interest in Mark Fotheringham. Clough said th.... read more
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Demonstrators dressed as bank robbers gather outside of the Central Bank
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Protestors outside of the Central Bank on Dame Street in Dublin. Reports have said that the protest has been peaceful thus far.
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Pat Mahon, (left) from the Shirt Off Your Back protest, at the gate of the central bank. The banner says "Fermoy says NO to Bondholder Bailout"
Supporters have been donating food to the demonstrators on Dame Street
Protesters outside of the Central Bank on Dame Street. "If they take our future, we'll take the streets"
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Mozilla is celebrating the fifth anniversary of Firefox 1.0, released November 9, 2004. The project began as a fresh start intended to be leaner and faster.
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Owners of a Greenwich pub have received a hefty fine after inspectors found mouse droppings in the kitchen and raw sewage in sinks.
Environmental health officers for Greenwich Council spotted the "serious breaches of food hygiene" at the Trafalgar Tavern during a routine visit on February 16, 2012.
Thames Water has announced revisions to its proposed super sewer and it's still not too late save the foreshore at Wapping's King Edward VII Memorial Park.
A second consultation is underway on the Thames Tideway Tunnel, which will help tackle the 39million of raw sewage that washes into the river every year.
Thames Water has been urged to reconsider its plans to build a £3.6billion super sewer along the River Thames.
A report published this morning recommended a moratorium on the scheme, which could add up to £65 a year to Thames Water customer bills without addressing the wider problems of dealing with sewage in London.
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Wharfers from Millwall to Wapping have been contacting their elected representatives about plans by Thames Water to utilise some of our limited green and open spaces to build overflow points for the upgraded route to the sewage treatment works at Beckton. Thames Water's preferred site is the King Edward Memorial Park in Shadwell and part of the rear of Narrow Street.


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Crumbling cheese treats! It was a week before Halloween, and my sister Thea wanted me to write a book of fun games and activities to celebrate the spookiest day of the year. I don't know why she wanted me to do it when she knows what a scaredy mouse I am. Just thinking about October 31st makes my fur stand on end!
But sure enough, faster than you can say "slippery sewer slugs," I was on the way to the cemetery to do research. Oh, how I hate cemeteries! I'm always afraid I'll see a bat or a skeleton or even a ghost. Fortunately, my nephew Benjamin was with me. He is awfully brave for such a little mouse. Without Ben by my side, I would've run away squeaking in terror!
At the cemetery we met a beautiful but spooky mouse named Creepella von Cacklefur. Creepella was full of good ideas for games and activities — but they were all TERRIFYING! Even worse, Creepella seemed to have a little crush on me! She was very pretty, but I was worried. Creepella was so creepy she'd probably want to visit a cat clinic on our first date!
Well, you'll get to read all about how I managed to escape from Creepella — as well as all of Creepella's spookiest ideas for Halloween — in my next book, It's Halloween, You 'Fraidy Mouse! I hate to admit it, but I did end up having a good time on Halloween.
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