Corndogs + Avocados

Yay! Darin’s home!
Darin got home Monday from an around the world tour his expedition company put together (Starquest Expeditions). Darin was an assistant tour leader. Although he and the other staff were crazy-busy and only averaged around 4 hours of sleep a night because of all the logistics the team had to take [...]

This is St. Francis’s Superior Rice. I bought it in El Salvador hoping that the propaganda at the bottom of the package might indeed hold true. It says roughly, “A blessing when it’s time to cook.”
Now if they could find a saint to sponsor a rice who could manage to get the rice [...]

Well, this may be the clearest photo I got out of five disposable cameras all developed at Costco. I’m not sure if the camera itself or the developing is to blame. Surely it is not the photographer.
Anyway, this picture was taken outside the UCRES office in Aguilares, El Salvador. More about UCRES to follow. Suffice [...]

So two days after arriving in El Salvador more than six canker sores exploded in my mouth. They never seemed to get worse or better, just constantly annoying. I brushed my teeth and gargled several times a day and even bought some medicine for them. All to no avail.
However, 24 hours after [...]

These pictures were taken on a cold day in February, 2006 at Seaside, Oregon. Enjoy!