But For the Sky

Month: February 2012

  • Weekly Twitter Updates

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    Leaving #Varanasi tonight. We've enjoyed wandering through the Old City & seeing practicing Hindus on the Ganges River. Time for #Khajuraho # Been waiting 2 hours, 10 minutes for our lunch. And I thought African Time was bad. #VishnuRestHouse #Varanasi #HUNGRY # Fell asleep to a cow mooing and woke up to dogs chasing monkeys…

  • Yum: Where the Chapatti At?

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    Let’s not sugar coat this: generally speaking, Africa is not exactly full of culinary delights. We ate chicken and chips for dinner more times than I care to remember, and for about two weeks our diet consisted almost exclusively of corn, bananas, peanut butter, and crackers– that’s all we could find. So when you find…

  • Seeing Uganda through the Eyes of an NGO

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    One of the main reasons we decided to visit Uganda–besides not feeling totally ready to leave Africa, and some scheduling particulars that made it make more sense–was because we have a connection in Kampala. Lynn, one of my parents’ oldest and dearest friends some eight years ago sold the business she owned and started a…

  • Sipi Falls

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    We had a few days to kill before heading to visit our friend near Kampala, and we had zero desire to spend a lot of time going too far, nor did we feel like going anywhere that required too much planning, so we headed east to Sipi Falls. We had read that this set of…

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    #Varanasi hotel description: "Give us an opportunity and we will surely make you happy and feel better in this stange religious city" Great. # got our first "what is your good name, sir?" yesterday #India # looks like the East coast won the Superbowl #sports #tweetsbyClaudia # Just arrived in #Bodhgaya the spot where Buddha…

  • Volunteering with Soft Power Education

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    We were ready for a somewhat different experience during our time in Uganda, our last stop in Africa. Uganda, also known as “the pearl of Africa”, is a country roughly the same size as the state of Oregon, but with a rapidly-growing population of 33+ million people (for comparison, Oregon’s population is 4 million). The…

  • Video Dump 4: Tanzania

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    We loved Tanzania, and found so many parts of it so photogenic that inevitably took too many videos (is videogenic a word?), so here’s another dump of those videos that didn’t make their way into any of our posts. One video of the adorable chimpanzees of Gombe Stream National Park: Click here to see a…