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The UNESCO sites I have added
In November of 2009 I listed the 16 Unesco sites I had been to. In the two plus years since I have added these… Historic Center of Prague, Czech Republic Antigua, Guatemala Tikal, Guatemala Historic Center of Rome, Vatican City Holy See, Vatican City Copan Ruins, Honduras Þingvellir National Park, Iceland Orkhon Valley Cultural Landscape, …
Oh the places I’ve been part two
About a year ago I reviewed the countries I had been to through parts of my life. Here is that list updated for the last year. By 1992: Canada Brazil South Korea 1992-2006 Mexico 2007 Vietnam Cambodia Indonesia 2009 Peru Ecuador China 2010 South Africa Zimbabwe Botswana Zambia Guatemala Honduras Belize 2011 Iceland Norway Denmark …
Amarbayasgalant Monastary
This week was our spring break at school. On Tuesday morning Pepper, Jordan and I packed up and loaded into a car at 9 for a two night trip to the Amarbayasgalant Monastary which is North of Ulaanbaatar. We met with the other car and transferred passengers so the only person sitting on laps was …
Hash House Harriers in Mongolia
For a number of weeks now we have gone for hikes with the Ulaanbaatar Hash House Harriers. I had never heard of H3 before coming here but Pepper has know of them for years. They are a worldwide group of self proclaimed drinkers with a hiking or running problem. We see it as a good …
A few vodka bottles at our neighborhood garbage pile
Wow. There is a bar near us that uses the same centralized pile of trash as we use at our apartment. We saw this impressive collection there. Mind you, they clean this pile every day or two. The Russian influence here clearly included introducing vodka.
We played paintball today
Saturday morning we met up with a friend and another 6th grader and we went and played paintball. It was my first time and it was quite fun! The kids and Pepper played against Albert and I. I was shot on the butt cheek the first two games! It was maybe a little cold for …
Quizzle credit score still free
Every now and then I get an email about Quizzle still offering a free credit score. I blogged about this four years ago. My credit score has taken a bit of a ding in those years. A number of things have been responsible such as refinancing the house, closing quite a few open credit accounts, …
Making Mexican in Mongolia
Pepper made toastadas for dinner a few Sundays ago. It isn’t as easy as it would have been in the US. The tomatoes, cilantro, onion, sour cream and lettuce came from Mercury market – not all from the same vendor. Then the cheese came from the grocery store next door. The refried beans and Corona …
A care package from home!
Because of some problems with my website this post was not published last week… We found that by having things wrapped that the customs officer is less likely to charge us a duty. We had two boxes at the post office today. One from Kevin and Trina held a great collection of batteries, plastic food …
WordPress Dashboard css won’t load
After removing some malicious material from every .php file on my WordPress install I had a few things that still were wonky. Every time I went to the Dashboard for WordPress it seemed like the CSS was not loading and the view was all messed up. I tried a number of different things and couldn’t …
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