One night, while Nick was off on a work trip, Nia and I decided to try out the hot dogs here. I don’t recall ever eating hot dogs at our prior posts (except one 4th of July when someone hand-carried them in a cooler from the U.S.). However, the meat here is of notable quality and...
There is no shortage of activities to fill our days here. This past weekend we decided to give the circus a go. Almaty is unique in that it has a permanent circus arena called the Kazakh State Circus. I’m not 100% sure on this yet, but I believe Almaty has its own group of circus...
Photo by Unseen Studio on Unsplash I love being in school. Always have, always will. It’s all my favorite things in one–mental stimulation, community, personal growth, and rigid structure. So it will come as little surprise to you that I’ve already enrolled in school...
Ughhh. Today sucked. It started with a 3 AM wake-up from throbbing back pain of unknown origin. All I’d been doing was sleeping, which clearly is a liability now that I’m middle-aged. And DANG did it hurt. Took some aspirin and flopped between various sleeping positions for a...