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September 13, 2009
Starving Yourself Can Be Healthy
It started from a feeling that God was asking me to fast… after all, fasting is talked about all through the Bible. Then it continued with a realisation that most of the food I was eating was not really good for me. Finally, it all came to…
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July 28, 2009
Getting Higher on Internet
To get internet out where we are, we needed to set up a wifi connection between us and town that allowed us to access a broadband internet connection there. This was first done with a 6m pole that we mounted at both ends of the connection.…
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July 28, 2009
Busted Bike and Rogue Programs
Looking for illegal software, riding a broken bike, and racing against time. Things did not start out looking so great, but I was very surprised at what I discovered.
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July 26, 2009
Snow in Puerto Madryn
They say that it never snows here in Puerto Madryn, mainly because we are so close to the sea. However, in the three years that I have been here, this is the second and by far the largest snowfall that I have experienced. Of course the…
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April 30, 2009
Connections in the Bush
Well, to be honest it is not really the bush out here. In fact, it could never really be the bush out here, considering that we live in the middle of a desert. But the idea is the same. The bush means far from anything like a city. We are…
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April 26, 2009
Tales of Travel in Argentina
It was 3.50pm by the time I called the taxi agency again. Where was that taxi that they had promised me for 3.45? My bus was leaving at 4.07pm and with a 10 minute drive from here to the terminal, time was getting tight. It shouldn’t have…
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March 28, 2009
The Impossible Became Possible Today
It had long been talked about. The possibility however, seemed far fetched at best and more probably impossible. Of course with enough money anything is possible, but we didn’t have that kind of money. Today everything changed.
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November 24, 2008
Good Customer Service
One of our door-locks was broken and it looked like we would need to replace it with another complete lock. But on a whim I pulled it out and raced down town to see if there was any chance of paying for a repair. In Argentina there are…
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November 21, 2008
When Stopping is Wiser than Going
I crashed my bike today.
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November 3, 2008
Internet for a Coffee
Where we live in the outskirts of town there is no internet available. A dial-up connection with a modem gives us some basic internet access but it is so slow and troublesome that we tend to only use it for emergency situations. Most times…
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