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Haiti – August 2012 – Day 3

Posted on August 29, 2012 by Ray

We’ve scoped out our project at the orphanage so we wanted to go back to Port-Au-Prince to see the John Branchizio school and the C.I.T.I. school in Cite Soliel. PAP can be very dangerous so we employed security to do … Continue reading →

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Haiti – August 2012 – Day 2

Posted on August 27, 2012 by Ray

We got up well past the crack of dawn and had a nice buffet breakfast at the Indigo Resort restaurant. At 9:00 am the car was ready for us to take us to the orphanage at Williamson. Our translator was … Continue reading →

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Haiti – August 2012 – Day 1

Posted on August 27, 2012 by Ray

August 21 Traveled to Haiti today. It was, thankfully, an uneventful flight. The Port-au-Prince airport is always chaotic but I made it through. Someone from Mercy & Sharing was there to pick me up and provide transportation. My friend Mike, … Continue reading →

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Haiti

Posted on August 6, 2012 by Ray

I will be returning to Haiti soon to visit the Williamson orphanage, the Branchizio School and Cite Soliel. We are putting together a team to install a playground at the Williamson orphanage and do some maintenance. I received news that … Continue reading →

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The recent motor trip.

Posted on August 5, 2012 by Ray

We recently returned from a motor trip the the Muskoga region of Ontario to visit friends and then on to Michigan to visit family. Things went very well. The weather was nice and the driving was good. We had a … Continue reading →

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Travel Anecdote – Positano, Italy

Posted on May 8, 2012 by Ray

We decide to take a luxury vacation to the Almalfi Coast in Italy for our anniversary. We book a $500/night (off season) room in a hotel in Positano. The travel arrangements are made so that we go out of JFK … Continue reading →

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Update – The Waterhole in Ethiopia

Posted on April 26, 2012 by Ray

I just got an email from the representative from Catholic Relief Services (CRS) who we traveled with when we visited projects in Ethiopia. One of the main focuses of CRS in Ethiopia is to bring clean water to villagers. One … Continue reading →

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There is Hell and there is air travel. The latest episode.

Posted on April 17, 2012 by Ray

I was thinking that I was having too good of a run of good luck with my air travel. After the Cuba fiascos things had been quite smooth. In two long trips to Argentina, a trip to Haiti and our … Continue reading →

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Travel Anecdotes.

Posted on March 23, 2012 by Ray

I’m not traveling now so I thought that may I would occasionally post some anecdotes from earlier trips. I hope you find them entertaining. Venice, Italy One of our early bicycle trips was in Italy. We went from Trento to … Continue reading →

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The winter that isn’t.

Posted on March 13, 2012 by Ray

Normally, February can be a good month weatherwise in New York. It may be cold but the the skies will be clear and it is tolerable. March tends to be much more challenging. It should be warming up but it … Continue reading →

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