Cristobal playing with a rubber band
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Me at SeaTac, waiting for the flight to Vegas
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My graffiti. The bed frames had lots of it, it just says my name and the date
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Picture of the beach
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Self portrait.... I always look bad in photos.
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Gerardo "Yayo" Ardiles, my host father
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Friends at the beach, the person under the hat is Cristobal, one of my host brothers, Valentina is in the lower left. My memory for names is horrible, so I recognize the other three, but can't recall the names... really sorry.
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Cristobal
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Casa de Cristobal
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Rocks on the beach
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More rocks
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dead jellyfish, there were lots of them on the beach
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dead jellyfish number two
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dead jellyfish number three
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dead jellyfish number four, hopefully the last...
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a dead crab shell I found
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a large feather. again, I'm not a very good photographer, so things will seem odd
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Playing cards
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Cristobal with a friend
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can't make out who is in this picture, again sorry.
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Ignacio, my other host brother
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Vale
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coastal desert
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more desert
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patterns in the sand
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looking at the sea
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part one of my attempt at a panorama
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part two
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part three
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part 4
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part 5
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part 6
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part 7
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part 8
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sunset, probably part 9 in the panorama
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part 10
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ok, I'm just gonna use numbers now, this is 11
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12
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13
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14
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15
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16
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17
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Fox tracks?
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bird tracks
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tracks and patterns
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more tracks
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fox tracks going out into the desert
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more
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more
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off it went
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patterns and the sun
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sunset part deux
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the dunes were great. save the hole I got in my foot from a shell
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rocks on the edge of where the dunes end and the real desert begins
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an attempt to photograph really small tracks, probably of a lizard
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same thing
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see above
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someone's house
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Ignacio
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Yayo and Ignacio
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Me
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Me again
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sunset, hmm, was summer so took awhile
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believe a pelican in the water
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sunset.... again
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just the bay
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bay again
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third part of the bay
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more fun
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even more fun!
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Yayo, and Lorena, my host mother to the right
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finally.
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playing cards
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birds... I think
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pelican
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The moon, which, being from the northern hemisphere, was very very different. You know the black spots? the Sea of Tranquility and whatever? yeah, well below the equator, their on the bottom, not the top
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the bay in twilight
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moon again, and some other light source, probably a star.
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I can recognize Lorena as the second from the left, but the rest is blurry, I made the mistake of dropping my camera in the sand on day two, so most of these are out of focus.
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Starfish in the tidal pools
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bright red anemone
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anemone and the starfish
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the tidal pools
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more tidal pools
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even more
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look for bright red spots.
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edge of the pools
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more tidal pools
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even more
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dead things
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nasty sunburn... on my hand
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why me? and why both?
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breakfast
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dunes
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part of the shelters we had up
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People tracks!
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rocks
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Crab claw I found
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Probably a pelican
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the bay at twilight, again
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a picture of two family friends with a bizarre effect of floating sand
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can't recall her name. sorry
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Friends and Ignacio
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Vale and her friend, god I hate not remembering names...
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me and Vale
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Vale and her friend
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Ignacio
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main part of the house
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second story, where the computer is and where Ignacio lives
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Something I hit my head against
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Hit it....
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living/dining area, as you can see, my focus is off.
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backyard
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backyard
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backyard, you can see the canals around the tree, when it did flood, which was usually weekly, it was sweet.
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big cactus
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cactus
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like I said, big cactus
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backyard again
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backyard
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porch, we had BBQs and dinners out here
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Place for my stuff
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outside my room, part of the yard, can see the pool in the back ground
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Me, Vale wanted me to wear those sunglasses, looked like a Cop
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Me again, I'm doing something probably stupid on the computer
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Watering the yard
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watering
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lovely canal system eh?
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canals
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looks like a yard...
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...really, its more like a marsh
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the main canal
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honestly, no idea.
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main canal
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one of the gates
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Lorena with a I believe Bolivian style hamock
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canal
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more canals
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cats, there were about 5 or 6 of them and they lived outside, always.
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more cats
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I remember this cat's name, its Cosa, which means "stuff". Vale found it on the street one day (obviously, before I came) and they kept it, it had some infection in its eyes so for the first few months it had nasty stuff coming out of its eyes
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another cat
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cat
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Cosa
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Cosa playing with the camera string
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more playing
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kitchen counter
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kitchen
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kitchen, plus the fridge
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fruit!
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Candy!
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Books
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that living/dining area, I don't know how to classify it
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it again, but blurry
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living room
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just outside my room, can make out Oso the dog
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the Cabana
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pool
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Oso, the dog. Oso means "bear" in spanish.
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