Portable Parents Blog

Some may view our life as one without purpose or direction.  We do not know what tomorrow will bring, or where we will sleep in a month, or what the next 40 years holds for us.  It is a life currently without possessions or the encumbrances we have come to associate with success.  We don’t...

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Our family are big fans of pizza!  What family isn’t right?  Well, we always make a point of finding a pizza shop in the towns we visit, and try the local flavors. Surprisingly, or not, there are some pretty good pizza’s in Latin America that certainly beat the U.S. national pizza chains.  We do see...

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We were sitting in our favorite banana split shop, the 4 of us enjoying the marvelous concoctions of fresh banana’s, handmade Blackberry, Pineapple, and Mango sobet, topped with rich whipped cream, when 3 other folks entered the shop and sat down at the table next to us. Are you from America? The question coming from...

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We have already developed quite an extensive list of our favorite food places in town after only a week. Granted some of these are familiar to us from our visit last March, but most are new to us and the result of just walking the streets, exploring, willing to try new foods. You can get...

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Can you hear it? Silence…. IF you are sitting in a small Ecuadorian village in the Andes that is, if you are in the U.S. right about now (December 20th) you hear anything but silence. It is only 5 days until x-mas and we have not heard one radio or television ad marketing diamonds, the...

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Pop quiz time….what do Balloons and Toilet Paper have in common? Ok, that was a toughy…lets try this – What can Balloons and Toilet Paper teach us about sustainable living? It started a few weeks back when we needed 2 balloons for a science experiment Grant was conducting for his homeschooing. We set out one...

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