http://www.travelblog.org/Bloggers/Kuno/ Travel adventures in journals and photos from Kuno en-us Sun, 08 Nov 2009 18:46:53 +0000 Sun, 08 Nov 2009 18:46:53 +0000 Mixto is a man arguably lsquothersquo man yet so much more that the three letter word does not do him justice. Mixto is honesty. It all started the day he Ravi and I first tried to install a sink onto our first Sanitation unit without Connor our mentor aka ldquoProfessor Plumbrdquo. To install this sink we must drill holes in the concrete wall for the bolts. Naturally the h http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Peru/Ica/Pisco/blog-341378.html Irsquom going to do this one backwards before I tell you the story Irsquom just going to go ahead and tell you the morals.1. Life is awesome smile along the way.2. Lying is useless besides the truth is funnier.3. You get what you give so give away positivity. So because I had an interview at 200 pm in Charlottesville yesterday I was a little behind schedule. Not that I have http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/United-States/Ohio/blog-329846.html note This entry is all about runon sentences and captions for the photos.It was Tuesday the 15th at about 815 am at our regular morning organizational meeting. Forty plus volunteers are sitting in an outdoor area of a place known as Base Camp where at least half of the volunteers have slept the previous night in two dorm rooms. The de facto leader Jimmy an under30 thinframed scraggly http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Peru/Ica/Pisco/blog-302937.html The Smaller PictureFriday the Fourth woke up at 730 am to sit through an 800 am meeting literally picked up a personrsquos house with 8 others and moved it a meter East and a meter South tossed about 2 tons worth of heavy stones from one pile into another pile 3 meters away hacked at stone with a pick axe and steel pole for several hours dug a 12 meter long ditch with a depth progressing http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Peru/Ica/Pisco/blog-299363.html It is ten until 600 pm and I'm eating at what must be a Peruvian Diner. I just ordered an hamburguesa clasico con huevo y papas. Loosely translated that would be a classic hamburger with egg and fries. It feels so very White Spot for those of you who have been to Charlottesville. On the counter are homemade dessert cakes and glass jars of cereal. The whole place has to be no bigger than 15 http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Peru/Lima/Lima/Miraflores/blog-294643.html Honestly if you found something good I mean really really good would you want to share it with others at your own expense I've debated on whether to write this article. Until now I have felt as though my favorite restaurant in the world is busy enough without me recommending it to others. I mean this place is packed with locals during dinner eating hours just about every day of the week. http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/South-Korea/Gyeonggi-do/Seongnam/Bundang/blog-252365.html A return to the States is like a regression in time where buildings roads and store names have changed while people and old habits haven't. There's a new building on the corner the highway is a little wider a little longer before the familiar construction and that one restaurant where you used to go has closed shop while three chain restaurants have opened in its stead. People have matured http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/United-States/Virginia/Charlottesville/blog-244916.html This is New Zealand a country where 200 kilometers will reveal such a varying degree of Nature that you may pass through a rustcolored desert where the only moisture in the vicinity is the sweat on your brow while on the other side of the mountain you cut through vegetation so think that if you didn't know better you'd mistake the forest for a wall. In New Zealand you will find volcanoes with http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/New-Zealand/National-Parks/blog-224954.html continued...You don't have to think about it to define it it's the grass is always greener phenomenon. What you have to think about is how to change this phenomenon into one that's going to make you a happier better person.Isn't that what everyone wants to be happy Ask anybody what the secret of life is and they'll either say to be happy to something that basically means to be happy. http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Indonesia/Bali/Kuta/blog-217226.html From about 230 to 430 pm on my brother's birthday I hung around the pool reading my book and swimming. I then headed off to the beach to do some sunset surfing with the goal in mind of not spending a lot of money for a board.I succeeded on my third guy who was willing to charge me less than half of the other two's original prices. So I borrowed his rash guard wet suit and paddled out into t http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Indonesia/Bali/Kuta/blog-216488.html Chuseok is labeled on our calendars as the Korean Thanksgiving. However if you think about that for a second it seems odd that Korea would celebrate Thanksgiving. Christmas yes. New Years of course. Even Halloween if you want. But Thanksgiving I thought the fourth Thursday of each November was a uniquely North American holiday celebrating the survival of the pilgrims through the first W http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Philippines/Cebu/Moalboal/blog-209988.html It all started three years ago. One year away from graduation no careerpath in mind and the audacity to dream outside of the box.Neither my best friend Blake nor I wanted to jump into the rat race head first like many of our young and motivated college mates. Blake and I much preferred diving head first into dreams of waves bigger than we can handle in places far enough away to only be known http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Indonesia/Bali/blog-198877.html Look in a mirror and you won't see yourself you'll only see a reflection of your outer appearance. Challenge yourself your mind your body your courage your strength endurance and patience only then will you glimpse the self you look for when you gaze at a mirror. http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Japan/Shizuoka/Mt-Fuji/blog-189355.html Korea is about the size of the state of Indiana in terms of land area. However Korea has 7 times as many people living on that area of land as Indiana has 47.5 million to 6 million people. To attempt to put this into perspective take Indiana and everyone that lives there and then add everybody that lives in the most populated state California and dump them in Indiana. Then you'd still have t http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/South-Korea/Gyeonggi-do/Seongnam/Bundang/blog-147209.html Naturally it could only be so long before I had to experience Korean baseball. Well as chance would have it the first Korean baseball I experienced was an amateur baseball game in which I played centerfield for the last two innings and was subsequently asked to join the team. I'll tell you more about that later. What I want to tell you about is the experience that is a professional baseball gam http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/South-Korea/Seoul/blog-152789.html If you've ever been to Thailand you know what I'm talking about. If you have not been then let's engage in a little thought experimentImagine you're a typical backpacker. You either quit your job or graduated from school and you have decided to up and leave wherever you're coming from to travel the world. Well you realize that you can't see the whole world so you figure out your options. You' http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Thailand/Central-Thailand/Ko-Samet/blog-157241.html It was only a matter of time before I played baseball in Korea. It doesn't matter if I hadn't even seen a baseball field in Korea for the first six months. I was determined to not only find one but to suit up and get a game in be it sandlot amateur or professional. It ended up being amateur. Here's the story.The Chance EncounterIt's just another average night in Korea. I'm walking home from d http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/South-Korea/Gyeonggi-do/Seongnam/Bundang/blog-172737.html Dear ComradesMy brother and I have recently returned from a very touristy trip to the capital of China Beijing or Peking for your oldtimers. We saw some lovely landmarks Temple of Heaven Summer Palace Forbidden City the Great Wall and Tienanmen Square. We took some touristy photos standing in front of said lovely landmarks. We hauled tail up to the top of the Great Wall bought some p http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/China/Beijing/blog-133592.html There are no guns in Korea. Well at least compared to the United States it seems like there are no guns in Korea. Gun laws here are very strict. You are not allowed to keep a gun at your house. You are only allowed to own a gun for hunting purposes and the few who do have to keep these guns at the local police station. When you want to hunt you go to the police station check your gun out http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/South-Korea/Gyeonggi-do/Seongnam/Bundang/blog-125027.html Things I love about Korea People are accepting kind and overlygenerous the other night when I left the elevator a 2yr old girl very graciously and respectfully bowed to me and said goodbye in Korean a courtesy of course of which I returned to the amazement of her parents Bread here is squishy soft Snow is always snowball worthy... always Currency is about 900 to 1 and that makes m http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/South-Korea/Gyeonggi-do/Seongnam/Bundang/blog-116613.html