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Final Vacation Photos

montanaron — Sun, 24 Jul 2011 08:10:06 +0000

Here are a few more photos from my recent trip to Laos and Thailand. This is one of my favorite views of Bangkok, looking into the Silom area and taken from the statue of King Rama VI in Lumphini Park. I probably should have tried to take a panoramic shot to give a better sense [...] Related posts:

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Out and About

montanaron — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 22:15:13 +0000

Except for quite a bit of haze, it was a beautiful day in Yeosu, so I took the motorbike out for one of my infrequent rides, another one along the coast. I’m extremely careful about riding the ‘bike–I don’t want to emulate my friend Nai in Laos, A.K.A., Mr. Accident-Prone. The back roads along the [...] Related posts:

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Rainy Day

montanaron — Sun, 27 Sep 2009 08:24:52 +0000

It’s been raining off and on all day, at times somewhat heavily, and there’s a bit of a chill in the air–a good day to stay indoors and read or watch the baseball game. I had planned on going out early in the morning to catch the sun rising on one of Yeosu’s beaches, but [...] Related posts:

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Update

montanaron — Fri, 16 May 2008 17:56:58 +0000

There was a LOT of confusion among the players and coaches about when everyone would be allowed to go home to vote. The voting age here is 18, so most of the Dominican players are eligible to participate in the elections, but they have to vote in their home districts. The main scuttlebutt was that [...] Related posts:

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Another Beautiful Friday

montanaron — Fri, 25 Jan 2008 20:25:12 +0000

Lucky me, it was another Friday off (the final one). There’s no practice tomorrow, so the players were again allowed to leave the camp early to return to their homes. The schedule will get back to normal this coming week, when 40 or so more players will be checking in to the camp. All of [...] Related posts:

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No More Big City Living

montanaron — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 06:33:32 +0000

I arrived back at the baseball camp near Boca Chica on Sunday morning, and it felt great to leave all the noise, pollution and chaos of Santo Domingo behind. I dropped my bags off at my room at the camp and took my taxi, which waited for me, into Boca Chica. I had to get [...] Related posts:

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Nagua

montanaron — Mon, 10 Dec 2007 17:11:12 +0000

I returned to Santo Domingo from Nagua this past Saturday after conducting 12 hours of workshops to about 20 teachers. My focus was Communicative Language Teaching (don’t worry, I won’t go into details here–click on the link if you’re interested.), a methodology meant to be yet another tool in a teacher’s instructional toolbox. About 15 [...] Related posts:

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5 Straight, Boca Chica Photos

montanaron — Thu, 14 Jun 2007 09:33:35 +0000

Again, we had some heavy showers over night and again, for the 5th straight game, the team won’t be playing here today. It looks like the bus is fired up, so perhaps the away game might be played. Now, though, the skies are clear and sunny, so let’s hope good weather is here to stay.

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Boca, Player Contracts

montanaron — Tue, 31 Oct 2006 07:10:36 +0000

I finally made it into Boca Chica with a couple of the coaches this past Sunday. It’s not all that impressive, pretty run down, and the beach was extremely crowded and a bit trashy from all the weekend activities–nothing like Thailand, but it wasn’t beach hell, either. Again, the beaches on the east coast of [...] Related posts:

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Santo Domingo and Venezuela

montanaron — Thu, 26 Oct 2006 09:02:29 +0000

I took a quick run into Santo Domingo Tuesday morning to get information about applying for a work visa. You can see the SD skyline from quite a ways off and it was startling to see the layer of smog and haze surrounding the capital contrasting with the blue skies and ocean just a bit [...] Related posts:

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