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100 and Done! (Countries that is...)

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We are back! This last trip brought the total countries visited to 100! It is a crazy milestone. It is difficult, time-consuming and can be (IS) expensive. After I got back from Antarctica in 2007, I started thinking about it. After 2010 I was thinking about it more (as I moved from NY to Georgia) and in 2014 it had become a real goal. Between Angie and I we have been to 109 Countries. We are tied at 100 countries each. We have 9 countries different in our lists. For example, I have been to San Marino. She has not. She has been to Israel. I have not, yet. There has been some fun competition in this area. That's why we had to establish rules. 1.) Must be listed with the US State Department 2.) Being in an airport doesn't count. You have to get through immigration somehow and not in a DMZ or a no-mans-land 3.) A passport stamp is not required. I have been to Canada, Paraguay, and Uruguay without getting my passport stamped. There are friendly borders in many places around the wor...
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I just finished watching NOVA The Elegant Universe” . I love that stuff. Although I cannot understand the equations it is fascinating to think about “who lives in these other dimensions?” Do they exist? If they do, how can we prove that by experiment? The theory of everything may exist right now. We just can’t truly understand it in a real world comparison or model. Pretty cool stuff. It was great letting the llamas into their new pasture. I found it to be a bigger relief than I expected. Things bug us all. We are masters at suppression. The small llama environment bugged me. It has been fun watching them test their new environment. Professor the Alpha seems to have a harder time than the others. He has been confused of how to get into the new pasture when he sees his buddies there. One of the great things about having animals is using them as a model for understanding human behaviors. I think it also the same thing as "Farm sense". Aries posed for me. Can you see his ...
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I am getting there with the fence. I still have to tweak it, but I am getting there. It has been well into the 90s here today. We have to pace ourselves and I took a long siesta with the fan going. I am not sure how the folks in Florida deal with this all the time. I am going to go rig up some temporary gates and let the llamas out. "Chuka Chuka. Who let the llamas out?" Well maybe not the ideal lyric.
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I am gaining on the fence. These pics were taken Saturday. You can see the llama house is moved and the holes are done. I rented a 35 pound demolition hammer to clear out what I thought was shale in the ones I couldn’t get the auger through. In a few I did find however some concrete slab from the old house. That made the job go a little slower since I was cutting through 8 inches of concrete with the small hammer. I would have rented a 60 pound jack hammer if I had known. I am taking Monday off. I will have it ready for animals on Monday I hope. Some tweaks will be left and the gates to make, but the animals will have more room. I stopped over at the Labar's the other night to take some pics of some horses (hor-sees’). This little guy is about 4 days old.
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