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Canary Islands: A Perfect Day
It is always doubly delicious when you meet a delightful stranger somewhere distant and then discover that he or she is actually from your home town. It happened to me in the Canary Islands. At lunch the day of my lecture I had started talking to Luis Salazar, a distinguished film maker, who was in [...]
Continue reading...Canary Islands: A Photo- just to remind us of a terrible sorrow that took place
Monday, June 8, 2009
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I could not insert this photo into my original post on the Canary Islands. My computer and the internet fought me. After two hours I gave up. But I wanted people to see what Roger and Deborah Fouts and I saw our first full day on this beautiful island. Whether it is animals or people being brutalized, it [...]
Continue reading...Canary Islands: Second Full Day
Monday, June 8, 2009
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The jet lag was so brutal my second day in the Canary Islands that I woke up at 12:30 pm. I had drunk a cup of coffee the night before. Big mistake! I couldn’t fall sleep until 7:30 am and when I forced myself to wake up, I felt like a zombie. But I went straight [...]
Continue reading...Canary Islands: Day One
Tuesday, June 2, 2009
I arrived in the Canary Islands at one a.m. and went straight to sleep. I couldn’t get up until twelve hours later at one p.m. I was so groggy that I could barely make my way out of the hotel room. I was so jet-lagged and nauseous that I would have willingly confessed to any past [...]
Continue reading...One Day of Travel: LAX to the Canary Islands
Friday, May 29, 2009
It took one entire day of travel to reach the Canary Islands. My plane was to leave LAX sometime after eight a.m. At 4:15 a.m. I get a call from US Airways that my flight has been delayed 100 minutes and that they will make alternative arrangements instead. I am very grateful. After hours at [...]
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Scientist, conservationist, educator: for almost four decades Dr. Biruté Mary Galdikas has studied and worked closely with the orangutans of Indonesian Borneo in their natural habitat, and is today the world’s foremost authority on the orangutan.Latest Flickr photos
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Monday, June 8, 2009
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