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Birding the road from Kabul to Jalalabad

10,000 Birds

Alternative transportation options would have included traveling on a truck like this one. We will establish a series of online workshops, trainings, and seminars for young women. As I said, the road mostly goes downhill … … but not every car or truck has good enough brakes to stay on the road during this journey.

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Birding Acapulco

10,000 Birds

The third weekend of January, I travelled to the coastal city of Acapulco to give a seminar on family finances at a church there. These goods, purchased with Mexican silver, would then be transported overland through Mexico City, and shipped from Veracruz to Spain. And my hosts, God bless them, seemed eager to make that happen.

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