Ave Maria and the Buttercream-Colored Girl

Or ‘How I know I’m not in Minnesota anymore’.
Stop signs are optional. 
This was discovered back during the white knuckle days of learning to navigate the streets.  There is one particular stop sign in the big city where everybody just kind of rolls on by.  I do it, too, but the initial thrill has worn off. 
In the beginning [...]

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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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