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#photo: Casa Alberta, Barrio Lastarria.
My dad took this awesome photo of a castle nestled into a city block, in Barrio Lastarria here in Santiago. The castle is called Casa Alberta and there is a Canadian flag on the door. I love the...
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Easter Island / Isla de Pascua / Rapa Nui – the most visually spectacular...
I had the great fortune to visit Easter Island with my parents. It’s called Isla de Pascua in Spanish and Rapa Nui in the local language. These 7 moai face the sea. Our guide said that they represent...
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Cementerio Rapa Nui: A Lovely Place to Rest in Peace
Today is All Soul’s Day, and I feel that it’s the ideal time to share photos from the most breathtakingly beautiful cemetery I’ve ever seen. During our trip to Easter Island, we stayed at a modest...
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How to Enjoy a Long Layover in Mexico City
I spent Christmas at home in San Francisco, and wanted to come back to Chile to ring in 2012. So I booked a one-way ticket on Aeromexico, which happened to be the cheapest one-way flight I could find,...
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Moving Home After Living Abroad: 4 Tips for Re-Entry
I recently moved back to my hometown, San Francisco, after spending the past three years in Chile, where I taught entrepreneurship courses at universities and collaborated with local startups. This is...
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The Places I’ve Called Home
This post started as a comment on Small Hands, Big Ideas, Grace Boyle’s wonderful blog. Following a meme that seems to be flowing around this corner of the blogosphere, she outlines the places she has...
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On “doing well & doing good” – a reaction from Mongolia
This adorable little girl lives at the ger camp in the Semi-Gobi Desert, the place where we rode camels. I chose her photo to illustrate this post, because I think her stylish coat and practical...
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The Quiet American. An Uncanny Vietnam Coincidence
Andrea James, who I have never met in real life, always leaves fascinating comments on this little blog. This week she posted a heartbreaking story about the news value of a death. Her story is...
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Joe Biden stares down Speedo-clad wrestler and names a horse in Mongolia! A...
From Google Analytics I’ve learned that lots of readers come to leslieforman.com to learn about Mongolian politics, especially the nature of its democracy, freedom of speech, and relations with the...
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The Mongolian Ger as a Yanic Symbol
I met Sara in 2004 when she joined Gamma Phi Beta at Cal and became my first little sis. An architecture major passionate about design and creativity, Sara often joked that the world of architecture...
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