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Suriname Report, part 4, language and some photos

Now that the photos have been rescued, the latkes have been cooked and consumed, Christmas pavlova has been ingested and copious amounts of iced drinks sit ready and waiting for me to guzzle, I can finally take a minute and talk about Suriname. I arrived to Paramaribo...

Shelter in place, or what to do when Chile wins

The other day was the finals in the Copa Sudamerica, I believe. There’s a system of points which has nothing to do with goals, but has to do whether the team won, lost or tied, and whether they were home and away. Chile had three points against Ecuador which...

Sometimes I think I might be West Indian

Suriname story interruptus, or oops, I went to Trinidad, too! So before I went to Suriname, I went to Trinidad. I did this for a variety of reasons, the main one being that you’ve got to get to Suriname from somewhere, and Chile definitely isn’t it. At the...

A few practicalities re: Suriname trip planning

It all started with an innocent conversation with another traveler in the hallway of the spacious and wood-paneled Vancouver Convention Center earlier this year at TBEX. We’d run into each other before in NY, Santiago, and then Vancouver. He’s one of those...

On sleep, and being home after much movement

A funny thing happened to me this afternoon during one of two naps that I took. Yes, two. I was in transit for 28.5 hours, during which I slept not nearly enough, and last night I even managed to dream that the turbulence on the plane was an earthquake (remember, I...