February 17, 2023 BOYS’ NIGHT- GIRLS’ NIGHT Around 5:30 this evening, all four boys ventured out into the relentless gusting wind at sunset. Despite the cold, they hiked to a view overlooking the ocean, and us girls hung back at the vans. Perhaps with a little more common sense, and a little less sense of […]
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February 17, 2023 FINISHING UP WORK & SHOWERING Last night (because of our fun night with friends) I didn’t finish my blog that is due today. The Starlink (our internet source) is set up so that the internet turns off at 11:30 pm and turns back on at 5:30 am. We turn it off at
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February 16, 2023 WORK SCHEDULES IN MEXICO It’s only Wednesday now, and I have three new tutoring students that I just picked up starting next week. I also got a new pre-med student working on his personal statement from one of the people that I had previously helped, which really made me feel good! It’s
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February 15, 2023 I wiggled my toes and stretched my legs. My eyes fluttered open and I could tell that the sun was already up. I checked my watch. Only 6:45am! Zak had already been awake for a little while doing work. I’ve been waking up earlier here in Baja in part because we’ve been
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February 14, 2023 FIRST VALENTINE’S DAY IN BAJA I’ll let you in on a little secret… I love Valentine’s Day! Maybe this is an unpopular opinion, but really, I love any holiday. I adore a good reason to get out of my normal routine. I’m a huge fan of getting dressed up and/or eating out.
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February 13, 2023 STARTING THE WORK WEEK IN BAJA, MEXICO: Most everyone in our group works full or part-time, so today we stayed most of the day at Papa Fernandez. Cora and Tyler and Kelsey and Magnum both have a Starlink, which is a satellite driven mobile internet source. Since nobody has cell service in
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February 12, 2023 Even though we went to bed last night around midnight PST, we both got great sleep. It probably had something to do with how much stuff happened yesterday, trying to cross into Baja. Zak got up early to watch the sunrise. I got up around 8 and the sun was bright, and
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February 11, 2023 We just spent our first day in Baja and I seriously can’t believe that we’re doing this and that we’re here! With all our parents’ nervousness, it can be hard not to feel scared ourselves, even when we were so excited. When Zak and I told our moms that we planned on
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Spanning across 275 square miles of the Tularosa Basin in Southwestern New Mexico, White Sands National Park’s gypsum crystal dunes are something to be marveled at! While the dunes aren’t all that tall, maybe 40 feet at the highest, when finally climb to the top of one (and let me say, it is more difficult
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Carlsbad Caverns sit right above the Texas/ New Mexico line, about 30 minutes North of the Guadalupe Mountains and 30 minutes south of Carlsbad, NM. The caverns were established as a park in 1930. It holds 46,766 acres of both underground caverns (the real spectacle of the show) and above ground trails. In fact, the
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