Something salty this way comes

Shopping for groceries on this island is really an entertaining experience.  In Mauritius what you buy one week, may or may not be on the store shelves the next week.  It all depends on what ships make it past the pirates, the storms and the political unrest. 
Our container of personal goods, for example,  was delayed by almost [...]

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PART II – Fine Wine Followed by some Light Tchaikovsky

Standing around gazing at all of the brown cardboard boxes, I was feeling a sense of exhausted accomplishment. Everything from the container seemed to have made it in one piece and all the way from America. It was pretty amazing to think that my great-grandmother’s china had made such a long journey. I hadn’t seen [...]

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PART I – Me, the Drunk Sailor and the Rastafarian

You have got to be kidding me.  What great cosmic karma fault did I commit to have what seems like multiple lifetimes of sheer chaos dumped on me all at once? For over two months I waited patiently. For over two months I identified insects and flora in the backyard while lazily tiptoeing around with [...]

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Overboard?

My aunt in Texas dared to tell little-miss-worry-me that the ship carrying our container of goods from America would arrive safe and sound with the tiny exception that our container would happen to fall overboard.  Well, perhaps it has.
On May 15th all of our processions were packed into sealed crates and placed into a moving [...]

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