Posts from ‘September, 2006’

I’m back out the house and on the road again. If you’re thinking I just got back to Florida from Tajikistan and I’m already beating the traveler’s path – I’m thinking the same thing right along with ya! It seems I’ve been on the road all year long now and it just makes sense knocking [...]

Nothing warms my heart more than getting the opportunity to blog about my old college pals doing great things and giving audiences giggle-gut across the globe. During those glory days at AILA she was almost a third roomie of mine. There she would hang out in me and Yoshiko’s apartment on my computer filling it [...]

After many, many hours of flying, three airport stops and some delayed flights I have finally made it back into the comfort of my own home. Exhausted – YES! The happiest part about being home is no more bird baths and no more squatting. God Bless American plumbing! Oh, and after spending four days in [...]

Last day – sniffle… It’s always a little sad on the last day of building. Like you could have done more, but time ran out. Sigh. Here’s the full report or something like it… Volunteer Vacation Day Seven: Last Day of Building My let’s get serious about poverty housing self-portrait… Rocky and one of the [...]

To check out the fulls grueling work details behind day six of the Global Village build proceed to the following post as found on Gadling: Volunteer Vacation Day Six: Every Hand on a Bucket. On a more personal note – today wasn’t as active as the team would have liked it to been, but we [...]

On our fifth day of building we were relocated to a third worksite. It really didn’t seem as though our services were needed. The worksite was a bit cramped and there was much downtime, but we made the most of what we could do when we were asked to something. Here’s the report as found [...]

One of my biggest concerns coming over to Tajikistan was the possibility of there being an interruption in my marathon training. I found myself getting locked into thinking I wouldn’t be running for three weeks, but such was not the case. Early on Teo recommended that I run down by the Dushanbinka River which was [...]

September 9th is the day Tajikistan became independent from the Soviet Union and is an official public holiday. We had the day off from building and our schedules suggested we would walk the center of the city to celebrate, sight-see, and do as we please. Before doing anything else we started our morning like normal [...]

Day four out the door! (Clever isn’t it?) Read about the build by visiting Gadling. Volunteer Vacation Day Four: Bringing Mud to the Roof. Movin’ on up, movin’ on up…. to the Eastside. Not quite? Okay, yeah so we here we are bringing the mud from the ground to the roof. Working with the homeowner’s [...]

Day three is done and out of here. Read about it here: Volunteer Vacation Day Three: More Dirt, More Mud and see about it below. Thoughts and comments very much welcomed. Shot of the second work site. Another shot of the worksite. The homeowner’s wife cooking delicious smelling food near the worksite. The team watches [...]