The day after the wedding I went back with the early crew to help return the borrowed generator back to the house (aka bar) where it was taken from and do some other clean up activities. This also includes celebrating the return of the generator with some beer and dancing at…oh, 10am on a Wednesday.
· Another day we went to a lagoon called Panacocha where there used to be fresh water river dolphins and almost a guaranteed sighting (they like swimming with the canoes like ocean dolphins do with boats). Lately however, sighting have been few and far between (we were unsuccessful). We’ve initially heard it’s because some people have started to fish there—with dynamite. On our visit though we saw that another oil company started work very close to there about 3 months ago. Either way - there goes the neighborhood.
· I’ve learned not to ask a babies name—they usually don’t name kids for a few (or many) months. Name a kid and expensive paperwork is required – so you may as well wait a bit…
· It was interesting for me to consider that while we travel and are exposed to other cultures and try to honor and adjust to them, here they are actually less tolerant of differences because they haven’t seen as much.
· Speeding oil company boats leaving large wakes are increasing river bank erosion and occasionally tip little canoes (a family of 5 was tipped recently – all drowned – boat didn’t stop).
· All my paper products have absorbed water, expanded and are on their way to disintegration (including playing cards busting out of their box).
· Another day we went to a lagoon called Panacocha where there used to be fresh water river dolphins and almost a guaranteed sighting (they like swimming with the canoes like ocean dolphins do with boats). Lately however, sighting have been few and far between (we were unsuccessful). We’ve initially heard it’s because some people have started to fish there—with dynamite. On our visit though we saw that another oil company started work very close to there about 3 months ago. Either way - there goes the neighborhood.
· I’ve learned not to ask a babies name—they usually don’t name kids for a few (or many) months. Name a kid and expensive paperwork is required – so you may as well wait a bit…
· It was interesting for me to consider that while we travel and are exposed to other cultures and try to honor and adjust to them, here they are actually less tolerant of differences because they haven’t seen as much.
· Speeding oil company boats leaving large wakes are increasing river bank erosion and occasionally tip little canoes (a family of 5 was tipped recently – all drowned – boat didn’t stop).
· All my paper products have absorbed water, expanded and are on their way to disintegration (including playing cards busting out of their box).
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