What to do when jetlagged and waking up at 4:30am? Join the locals of course and go for early morning exercise of stretching, yoga, walking etc… in the park around the lake, before the daily heat sets in. These people…
Hanoi Temples and treats ~ Hanoi, Viet Nam
Strolling new pockets of Hanoi’s Old Quarter, enjoying the colorful street scenes… The old quarter is of course only one small section of Hanoi, with other areas quite built up. Surprisingly while we understand Vietnams’ history with French colonialism, we…
Green Global Trek: Indochina
After a fabulous transition from Nicaragua to a new adventure, we had 3 consecutive family visits to bond with family members on the West Coast. L.A. gave us the Sandzer connection, (Jacqueline, Chantal, Sophie and Kenny and Rebecca), Portland our…
Some last vignettes of our life in Nicaragua ~ before we launch our Asia adventure
Nicaragua was of course about bamboo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zzNGsQ3A3zc&t=531s Over a period of 6 years, we built a bamboo housing industry in a country with a dramatic housing shortage, and a massive amount of construction grade bamboo… https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v_WPU43ScRc&t=6s Our home was…
Last entry from Nicaragua ~ July, 2013
Finally coming out from under an “update embargo” due to the delicate nature of discussions with CO2 Bambu shareholders, creditors, customers, partners and employees, but FINALLY we can share what’s up. So what’s up is a fundamental move along our…
Organic Farming ~ Learning from the Best ~ Cuba.
Before we left for Cuba, Peta was trying to score some greens. Let’s explain: Our prior experience was that Cubanos are carnivores. Intellectually, we know that is not true, because we have read about Cuba’s pro-active policy to create food…
Making someone’s day ~ Cuba
I remembered from our trip last year that people on the street (Trinidad in particular) came up to us asking for things like soap, pens and clothes. This time I took bars of soap especially to give to people when…
If we ever live in Cuba, it will be in Remedios…
We end our trip in what turns out to be our favorite city in Cuba – Remedios. Remedios is near the coast and looks like what we imagine Granada Nicaragua to have been like 20 years ago. As we write…