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Dinner

Sra Teodosia had a contagious laugh that could be heard a distance away. I snapped this picture before cow's head went into the cauldron.
Family Portrait

This picture of Rogelio Martinez and his wonderful family was taken during a family outing to a nearby river running through some of the last remaining forests in my site.
Flags

At the "inauguration" party for my newly constructed house, my counterpart and his family flew our flags.
Assimilation

Assimilation. We were trained, versed, and talked to ad nauseum on the subject. So much so that during my first month in a village on top of an Annapurna foothill, it was a piece of cake to find my exact place on the downward trajectory of culture shock. Homesickness—check. Anxiety—check. What I hadn’t expected was that no matter how clearly I defined my symptoms, checking them off could not fortify my heart. I had entered a world of sudden isolation and silence. At night I...
The Fan Milk Man

This photo goes along with my attached story
Dropping the Fan Milk Man

I am an avid road cyclist have ridden as much as 105 miles in day, and when I was racing, I rode as much as 5,000 miles in a year. I like to think that I can ride pretty fast. In Benin Peace Corps gave all volunteers a fairly nice Trek mountain bike to use to get around on since we didn’t have a motorcycle or a car. It was so hot in Benin that I couldn’t really enjoy riding for exercise, so I was a little out of shape. I was still riding a lot for transportation purposes, so ...
Doppas

Uzbekistan is one of those “stan” countries, a part of the former Soviet Union, a predominantly Muslim country with legendary cities of Samarkand and Bukhara, but it had been practically unvisited by tourists for over a hundred years. I had no idea what to expect there as a Peace Corps Volunteer, and nobody could tell me much either. At age 56, I had traveled the globe extensively on business and pleasure, and I felt up to anything. Besides, as it turned out, there really was no way that...
Meeting with the future of the Czech Republic

Much of my time was spent teaching ecological concepts to teachers and students - often in Czech. Here I meet with future leaders and decision-makers of the Caech Republic.
Meeting with Peace Corps Director Carol Bellamy

I had the opportunity to meet with Peace Corps Director Carol Bellamy in 1995. Here I explain a food web activity that I developed.
Five Squiggly Lines

My January 14, 1997 journal entry is an award winner. I like it because of the five squiggly lines that cascade down the page from the middle of words. I shouldn’t be able to remember writing it but I have a vivid memory of laughing myself awake at the end of every squiggle. The entries just before 1-14-97 were a little arbitrary when it came to writing a date. I had a fixed date to write when I wrote the last entry in Washington, D.C. The fourth group of Peace Corps Trainees bound fo...

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