Archive for November, 2010

A mango tree grows in our backyard…

November 21, 2010

For as long as the family can remember, we have had a wonderful mango tree in our backyard.  It has been here for at least 40-50 years, as a child Kelly used to climb it with her friends.  That really isn’t relevant to this post, but I find it fascinating.  The tree survived the house [...]

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Food Fair – Pucallpa, Peru…

November 11, 2010

This weekend Pucallpa presents it’s second annual Food Fair. It runs Saturday and Sunday, 13-14th  from 10am-10pm. If it is anything like last year, it is sure to be a spectacular hit.  It doesn’t just offer food from Pucallpa, but from all over the region. In addition to all the wonderful food, there are dozens of [...]

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Prorroga de Residencia…

November 5, 2010

Having never been an immigrant, I find a lot of processes I have to go through here rather interesting and much less frustrating than I would have expected.   When you become a Peruvian resident, no matter what type of residency, you have to go through two separate processes each year to maintain/renew it.  First is [...]

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Watching TV – Part 9999…

November 4, 2010

Someone said that you would be resigned to watching the fruits of your labors on your computer screen. Well, this is just plain wrong and as I pointed out in my previous post, it is quite simple to setup. I did neglect to document an additional method of viewing content on your TV, HD or [...]

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