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Hotel Staff Must Treat Guests Like Stupid Chickens
The Vagabond Journey family have now completed their tenure at the Finca Tatin, a hotel in the jungle of Guatemala. Three months of working with tourists have left me a little wobbly on the breed as a whole: who are these people and where do they come from? [...]
FINCA TATIN, Guatemala- The day begins before 7 AM in the eastern Guatemala jungle on the Rio Dulce. I wake up, quietly slip out of bed to avoid waking my still sleeping wife and baby, slip on a pair of shorts, grab my computer bag, a tooth brush, toothpaste, and walk outside. This will probably [...]
[ Continue Reading → ]SUCHITOTO, El Salvador- For five years I have been blogging, for two and a half years I have been publishing on Vagabond Journey.com. Since November of 2007, I have worked daily on this website. I watched traffic grow from only a couple visitors a day, to twenty, to 100, to 500, a thousand, two thousand, [...]
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I saw a two men winding fishing rope along a side street of Sosua in the Dominican Republic. I wanted to talk with them. So I walked up and asked, “What are you doing?”
The men initially looked big and moderately menacing, but, as soon as I began expressing curiosity in their handiwork, they opened up, [...]
Archaeology Anecdotes taken from autumn of 2009 –
The archaeology crew was beaten, bloodied, sprained, and exhausted after 38 miles of surveying through thick walls of prickly pear, manzanita, cat’s claw and an assortment of nature’s more malicious varieties of plant life. The heat of the sun was sharp at 7,000 feet of elevation and seemed [...]
Archaeology Fieldwork makes me look old.
“Fit as a fiddle,” is how Fruugal gently describes it. “Old” is how I do.
I wear my 8 seasons of Archaeology Fieldwork on my face. The sun, heat, cold, wind, rain, snow — all of nature’s moods in the extreme — greet me in rapid succession whenever I go out [...]
Archaeology in Arizona Project Completed –
My work here is done. The archaeology project in the Tonto forest has come to completion. The company that I have been working with for the past 11 weeks has cut its crew loose: “There is no more work for you, go on your merry way.”
The message is clear: I [...]
Travels with Petra Mommy Travel Blog Begins –
Chaya’s blog about traveling with an infant and a husband, Travels with Petra, is now being published on Vagabond Journey.com. There are three trial post on there now (I say trial because Chaya is still not too clear on her desires to be an internet writer.) So please [...]
The Working Ugly –
It has been well documented that the writer V.S. Naipaul is quite proud of the fact that he has never work a day in his life outside of writing. This fact is written in the author bios of his books, successful writers tout him for it, those with day jobs snarl. He [...]
Where Prehistory Becomes Human, Hardscrabble Dacite Outcrop near Strawberry, Arizona –
We were surveying an area in the Tonto forest for archaeology sites. We were near the Hardscrabble dacite outcrop. The prehistoric people who once traversed this region would travel to this rock outcrop, knock off a bunch of cobbles, and cart them away as materials [...]
Archaeology Artifacts from Tonto National Forest Arizona –
The work on the archaeology survey project in the Tonto Forest of Arizona has carried on into its fifth week. This travelogue entry will show what we have been looking for out in the mountains.
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Payson, Arizona, Southwest USA, North America
Monday, October 26, 2009
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Archaeology Fieldwork Good for Iron Bodied Daydreaming Travelers –
I like my job every morning. I wake up early, go outside, watch the sun come up, feel the sun warm up, and walk, walk, walk. This is one of the best avenues of paying employment that I have yet experienced. If all work is said to [...]
Archaeology Fieldwork on Top of a Mountain, Open Doors for Cages –
“Whoever is the first one to puke gets the nickname Tonto!” I am now ashamed to say that I proclaimed on that less than glorious first night of camping in the Tonto Forest with the archaeology crew.
Tonto is the name of the forest that [...]
Vagabond Financial Crisis –
I am in a financial crisis. The How to Save Money to Travel project concluded successfully — I shared a formula of how a person, any person, who can work legally in the USA can make and save enough money to travel for over a year off of 3 to 6 months [...]
Archaeology Survey in the Tonto Forest –
The sun sits three quarters of the way through its ferris wheel spin across the sky — it will soon be night.
The crew of archaeologists complain of sore legs and stumble around the campsite cooking pasta, chili, and pouring boiled water into MRE packages to eat before nightfall. The [...]
Archaeology Fieldwork is good if you want to travel –
This is a travelogue entry about how doing Archaeology Fieldwork is a good profession to get into if you want to travel. As with other traveling contract jobs, archaeologists in the USA get their living expenses on the road paid for them in addition to their [...]
Desert Archaeology–
These are notes and anecdotes from an archaeology survey project that I am on in the Sonoran desert of Arizona.
Paid to Hike in Desert
I get paid to hike in the desert.
“Really, they really pay us to do this?”
Yes, it is true, archaeology surveys in the southwest are far different than they are in other [...]
Cost to Drive Across USA –
I thought that it would cost me around $250 to drive a small Subaru Legacy almost the entire length and breadth of the USA: from Bangor, Maine to Quartzsite, Arizona.
I thought wrong.
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Quartzsite, Arizona, USA, North America
Wednesday, September 23, 2009
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After tallying up my expenditures, the [...]
Archaeology Project in Arizona –
Wade:
We do have a survey project going on out of Quartzsite, Arizona, through the end of September. Then possible work beyond that on Arizona Forest surveys here and there. If you’re interested, the pay is $12/hour, plus $35/day per diem and lodging. The crew leaves for the field Monday morning from [...]
Searching or an archaeology project in America, searching for inertia –
I am searching for an archaeology project to work on in the wild west of America. I have been sending out my CV to the Shovelbums.org listings as well as contacting old friends in the profession. I have turned up a few leads, soon, I [...]