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December 23, 2007
Last Bathroom Photos
These are the latest pics of the bathroom, just before I left Puerto Madryn on my way to Peru. The shower floor is still not done, and there is a huge kink in my main sewage pipe which I made while trying to replace a broken T-joint. The…
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December 22, 2007
Stuck in the Bathroom
For the last two weeks I have been stuck in the bathroom and have hardly left. There from the morning until midnight most nights, and rarely a moment to eat. What has happened to me? Some exotic disease or a severe case of the runs? Nope.…
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December 9, 2007
Keeping Busy in the Bathroom
During these last two weeks I have hardly spoken to anybody, have slept very little, have not been near town, and have had my emails piling up without being answered. What has caused me to be so involved? A bathroom.
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December 9, 2007
The Ships are a Comin’
Every summer our small-ish little town is inundated with cruise ships. These ships come from the north starting in Brazil and heading to Ushuaia and from the south starting in Chile and heading to Brazil. Every now and then there are…
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December 8, 2007
Christmas Has Arrived
This current school of Discipleship is comprised of mainly foreign students, so as Christmas gets closer they are missing the feeling of Christmas from back home where there are lots of decorations and other signs of Christmas around them.
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December 7, 2007
Windy, Dusty
Well, living down here in the Patagonia, one of the things that tends to be pretty common is the wind. The old-timers around here tell me that about 20 years back the wind never ever stopped all year round. If there happened to be a day…
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December 6, 2007
Fixing Cars
It is now almost 20 years since I was officially a motor mechanic, and most times I keep this news quiet. But somehow the information gets out and before long my skills are called upon to help somebody out who is in need. Since on our base…
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November 29, 2007
Pramway
There is only one car in our YWAM base here in Puerto Madryn. That belongs to Jorge and Isa, our base directors. Everybody else has to walk. Most people tend to walk the dusty main entrance road to the Quintas, hoping that somebody will…
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November 27, 2007
A Busy and Dusty Road
Riding home from the city is fine during calm days and when there is not a lot of traffic. Being in such a dry desert zone, dust is a real problem, and the moment a car passes by on a dirt road, huge clouds of dust swirl up behind it. The…
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November 26, 2007
The Frustration of Christmas in Customs
I am angry, annoyed, and frustrated. If I could be more things then I would be too. It is not as if I didn’t know… nor that I shouldn’t have been aware of what was going to happen. Still, each time it drives me crazy. Archaic laws from a…
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