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Mangolandia
mangolandia.com
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My boyfriend and I have recently moved aboard our 28ft (8.5m) and have started our circumnavigation! We are learning the rules of the water as we go and documenting it all through our camera and blog!
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Dr Seuss and entrepreneurship

Good morning wonderful world of doers, thinkers, travelers and workers. You are all wonderful and we really appreciate you tuning in here every day, week or month. Your comments, visits and emails ma...

25 may 12

Our dogs and the table – a love story

The last few days have been spent working on exciting new projects, that will be launched soon. We have barely left the house in 72 hours and it looks like we have been permanently to our couch ̵...

22 may 12

Expect something big

That’s right there is a project that has taken us away from the blog and other daily activities. No, I cannot say much about it but you will find out before the end of next week. I know you hav...

20 may 12

An afternoon with the “brothers in law”

So, we have designated Thursday afternoons as “brothers day”. It is when Manuel and Antonio get to come to la Casita, hammock-fight, play iPad games, work in the garden, cook and maybe, j...

19 may 12

Non-profit work…

I just came back from the first – next steps – meeting of the Galo Plaza Foundation. This is the organization I have been talking about in some of my previous posts. Needless to say, I ha...

17 may 12

A year after graduating-some thoughts

A year ago this week I graduated, weird. As I scroll through Facebook, I see friends from the class I should have been graduating with wearing caps and gowns and I get a strange feeling inside. Beloi...

16 may 12

poema de mother’s day

We took on a challenge today de escribir un poema for this morning of May. My mom y Caro entienden esto his mama is learning, cierto. Around the world hay muchas mamas all of which express themeselve...

13 may 12

house # 3 – detecting a pattern

Finally! Finally, we had a day to just dedicate to making this house nicer, prettier, more comfortable, warmer, less mouse-filled and just generally homier. Recently, I’ve been thinking about w...

13 may 12

my man’s bread

This post is dedicated to Mark and Ellen, Jaxon’s parents, because they are responsible for making my man into an incredible bread baker. It all started when Jaxon was born and raised in his pa...

11 may 12

our days

Our days are filled with small doses of questions and an large amount of predictability – just what we wanted. Long hours are spent working and we are about to cross the starting line with the ...

09 may 12

DIY – How to make yogurt

Making yogurt from scratch is easy. Is it cost effective? That depends on if you have cheap milk near-by or just how expensive the yogurt you normally buy is. Is the taste going to be better from sto...

08 may 12

weekend photodrop +

Countless times this weekend I wanted to sit down and write some words about everything we were doing, but our internet took most of the weekend off and we were stuck out of the cyber world – t...

07 may 12

The poodle fear!

As mentioned before, our days are mostly filled work, however we do make sure we go outside to take short walks at least twice a day. Today, during our “break hours” we went to get the 10...

05 may 12

hammock endurance

Either I am an excellent knot tier or it was pure luck that our hammocks endured my brothers this afternoon. Regardless of the reason, it makes me much more comfortable to sit on them now that my bro...

04 may 12

busy busy days

We are currently working on the making off close to 10 websites, which means Jax and I have been mostly staring at our screens for the last couple of days. It is hard work, but we could not be happie...

03 may 12

The tickets have been bought

Yes indeed, we have tickets to visit Surkha and family/friends in the USA, this summer! We will be flying into Miami July 4th and flying back, from Chicago, the 7th of August. During our time there, ...

01 may 12

ñaña & mom weekend

We spent this weekend with my mom and sister. Well, to be honest it wasn’t the whole weekend, it was more like 24 hours but we spent it with them and that was cool. They arrived Friday night, a...

30 apr 12

An afternoon with Don Lluki, Don Santos and a gallon of Chicha

It has now happened often that I run into people and they ask me “where’s Mr. Jaxon (or el gringo or Jaki) ” and I reply, “with the maestros in the mechanics’ (shop)R...

27 apr 12

Gardening half-day

Yesterday was our first day (well half/day) dedicated to our garden, I had spent a couple hours poking around but nothing serious. I was excited to do this, because after digging around the field (th...

26 apr 12

Home-made cappuccino – using only a French Press

This is a quick tutorial for those that love Cappuccinos, but don’t have a Cappuccino machine in the house or do have the machine, but don’t like the drink it produces or it’s broke...

25 apr 12

Getting our dairy fix!

Today we picked up our first weekly “box” from Zuleta’s creamery and cheese factory and man were/are we excited. The dairy order went like this: 5 liters (1 1/4 gallons) of unpasteu...

25 apr 12

Real first night & day at la casita

I write these words from the comfort of one of our couch/benches. Beside me I have a working Jaxon, below, two sleeping puppies, to my right, barley in the process of being malted/dried, behind, a ki...

24 apr 12

Marathon hacking and fresh veggies

Okay, so we are still in our temporary lapse back into Caro and Fernando’s place. Caye’s sickness and the lack of internet/food in our new little home convinced us to spend a couple more ...

22 apr 12

New feature in Mangolandia – timeline

After working on some of our clients’ websites over the last couple days and using a new timeline code, we decided it would suit our site perfectly as well. So here it is! We condensed down the...

22 apr 12

Da magical tea!

After a week of sleepless nights, yesterday Jax and I decided to try all the natural the remedies I had been taking throughout the week together. So thyme tea, honey, lime and “Tilo” (I t...

20 apr 12

family time in Quito

My night at my mom’s house was a delight. I can’t say I am completely cured from my cold, nonetheless my time with her and my sister made me feel much better. After a partially good night...

19 apr 12

Mom’s sweet remedies

My last night, can better be described as a no-sleep night. My coughing took a violent form and not only did it not let Jax or I sleep much, but it also brought me to my knees in front of the toilet ...

18 apr 12

first night in La Casita

For the last three days we have been putting in long hours into getting La Casita to livable state. Yesterday, we spent our first night here and although there are still lots of things that need to f...

17 apr 12

Cleaning and furniture day… tomorrow?

Today was a big, long, full day. We started out early by weighing a barley sample we ordered from a local farmer and submerging the grains in water for the first part of a 3-part steep that will prep...

14 apr 12

Moving to la casita tomorrow!

These last few days Jax and I have mostly spent them in bed working, not because the locality was so comfortable, but rather due to a virus that has left us sleepless for sometime now. Everyone we kn...

13 apr 12

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