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For those of you not in the Caribbean basin and glued to the National Hurricane Center website, Gustav has been plowing through the Caribbean wavering back and forth between a hurricane and a tropical storm.  At the moment it’s moving away from Jamaica after slowing making it’s way across the island over the last 18 [...]

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I spent two days last week in San Juan, La Paz.  San Juan is a village of about 60 houses about 2 1/2 hours from Tegucigalpa.  Until last week the town had no running water.  The residents of the village (typically women) had to go down to the river outside of town to wash clothes, bathe, bring water back for [...]

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I called home today to check in and Erika paused the conversation to yell at the kids.¨ “No synchonized diving off of the couches!” 
 

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I usually leave the cute kid stories to Erika’s blog, Life With Three, but I thought I would steal this one so people can see my warm and cuddly side. 
Michael has been riding the bus to and from school.  Worry not, we’re not sending Michael out to the boulevard with a couple of Lempiras (the [...]

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We’ve been in Honduras for two weeks now and this seems like a good opportunity to pause and reflect on the weeks behind us and the week ahead.  We’ve had a great two weeks in which we’ve gotten so much accomplished.  We were lucky - my boss has been in the States on vacation and I couldn’t start work [...]

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Here is a youtube video tour of our new home.  Fair warning - it’s about 8 minutes long. 

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I’ve added a new feature to the website that I hope will make it easier for people to keep updated on what we’re up to.  We now offer e-mail subscriptions so that when there is a new post you’ll get an e-mail linking to the post.
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After a week of house hunting and being cooped up in a hotel room we are happy to be moving into our new home.  It’s a great house up on a hill overlooking the city just a few minutes from the CRS office.  It’s furnished with everything we’ll need to get started and we’re very [...]

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After my last post about resorting to Burger King for my children’s amusement I thought I would just post an update that we found something much better than a BK playland.  It turns out that Tegucigalpa has a world class children’s museum.  We’re talking 4 floors of pure educational fun.  Costumes, kid sized construction vehicles, [...]

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…fast food.  Burger King, McDonald’s, Wendy’s, Little Ceasar’s, Pizza Hut, Popeye’s and so many more line virtually every street corner.  The shear quantity of Dunkin Donuts rivals the number we used to see in Boston where DD is king. 
Normally I would think about this in terms of globalization, American cultural hegemony or other vaguely academic [...]

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