Tag: writing
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Crabs!
This post is dedicated to the crabs of Palmyra Atoll…and my ice friend, Ben Goldberg, who LOVES crabs. They are everywhere here, crabs, not Bens. Fiddlers, Hermits, Coconut; all sorts and all sizes and they have the right of way on station. People fall off of their bikes to avoid them. I am not exaggerating…
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Plane Day!
Who needs sleep? For my final night of climate controlled sleep for the next three-and-a-half months, I barely slept. To be expected-adventure awaits! The program manager, Matt, picked my new cohort, Marsha, and I up at 7AM. I was running on straight adrenaline…and coffee. First we stopped at The Nature Conservancy’s (TNC) storage unit, where…
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Beginning of the Third In-between
Christchurch to Honolulu I left Christchurch and two flights and eighteen-hours later I arrived in Honolulu, Hawaii. One great flight-Christchurch to Sydney where I had the aisle emergency exit seat with an empty seat next to me, coveted. The nine hours from Sydney to Honolulu was a yucky flight though. When I picked my (aisle)…
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Day Thirty
When I set out to create this blog, I thought I’d string together one-hundred posts, make them relevant to each other from one day to the next and by the end of the one-hundred days, I would have a book. That is proving to not be the case. I started to realize early on what…
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Day Nine
Yesterday ended up being one of those days where my cup felt like it was overflowing with all the good stuff. Not just because it was my day off, it was truly a heart-so-full kind of day. I realized two things in the evening. The first being that the day before marked seven-months on the…
The Whole Wide World 