Tag: costa rica
member name: Michael Scribner
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August 13, 2007 12:51 AM EDT --
San Francisco, 10 August 2007, 9:15 pm.
Well, this is it. I’m leaving for Costa Rica in a few hours. I decided to take a red-eye so I could sleep on the plane and get to San José . . .
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August 13, 2007 01:31 AM EDT --
Santo Domingo, 12 August 2007, 9:25 pm.
Already I can tell this trip is going to be full of surprises.
I got to SFO before midnight Friday night and ran into one of my closest friends, Cory, at the airport. . . .
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August 29, 2007 07:37 PM EDT --
San Marcos de Tarrazú, 13 August 2007, 10:15 pm
This morning marked the beginning of the day for us to head to San Marcos de Tarrazú, the area where we will be spending the next two weeks . . .
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August 29, 2007 08:09 PM EDT --
San Marcos de Tarrazu, 16 August 2007, 9:15 pm
Today was our first day heading to a coffee farm to work in the field. At 5:00 am, I got up to shower and get ready for the day, do the wake-up calls, . . .
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August 30, 2007 08:04 PM EDT --
El Marquez de Tarrazú, 16 August 2007, 3:15 pm
Today was our second day in the field. The farmer and owner of the farm Victorino Valverde, who is nicknamed Ninito, was there to welcome us, . . .
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August 29, 2007 07:57 PM EDT --
San Marcos de Tarrazú, 14 August 2007, 6:00 pm
Last night was my first night sleeping in rural San Marcos de Tarrazú. Even though the days are very hot and humid, nighttime is cold . . .
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September 02, 2007 11:55 AM EDT --
El Marquez de Tarrazú, 17 August 2007, 4:00 pm
Last night’s dinner was really fun at La Vaca Flaca. The restaurant was set up like a log cabin with a stuffed cow out front. As . . .
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September 09, 2007 05:33 PM EDT --
San Marcos de Tarrazú, 21 August 2007, 7:05 pm
Today we visited one of the most beautiful farms I’ve seen so far. It was the farm of Rodrigo Solis. His father, Don Jaime, started . . .
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September 04, 2007 07:30 PM EDT --
San Marcos de Tarrazú, 18 August 2007, 10:00 pm
This morning my alarm rang at my usual 5:00 time. We were scheduled to go to another farm today. All told, by the end of next week, we . . .
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April 30, 2007 09:50 PM EDT --
It’s true that it only takes a small group of citizens to change the world. But it’s important that these groups not operate in a vacuum.
It was while working as a store manager for . . .
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September 06, 2007 01:04 AM EDT --
San Marcos de Tarrazú, 19 August 2007, 8:30 pm
Today was our free day so we got to sleep in super late. Till 6 am. We got up and got ready to go to a national park about an hour’s . . .
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