I don't know what this picture is. Katherine may have explained it. Or maybe not. I also don't know why I think it's so interesting, but I do. Others may disagree.
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I believe I can explain.
First you put the ladder on top of the dumpster. Then climb on top of the dumpster yourself and use the ladder to reach the roof of the octagonal building. Once there, your friend holds up your bicycle, which you pull up onto the roof with you. Then you can ride the bicycle along the telephone wires. It's the rural Afghanistan monorail.
This journal once chronicled the experience of a low-level American diplomat living in Guatemala. Then he went to Latvia, and Afghanistan, and then back "home" to Washington, DC for a bit. He is now serving in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. If you are one of the few people of no blood relation to the authors who has come here in search of Guatemalan content, here are a few choices from the archives that we like:
In Afghanistan, the photographic opportunities were often limited to what we could sneak with a point-and-shoot camera out the bulletproof window of a speeding SUV. But sometimes we got out and about. A few favorites from that tour:
We've also vacationed aggressively in each region we've been posted in, and taken some epic home leave trips, usually leading to better photos than those where we were posted. Those photos are included in the blog, but somehow holiday snaps seem beneath this sidebar.
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I believe I can explain.
First you put the ladder on top of the dumpster. Then climb on top of the dumpster yourself and use the ladder to reach the roof of the octagonal building. Once there, your friend holds up your bicycle, which you pull up onto the roof with you. Then you can ride the bicycle along the telephone wires. It's the rural Afghanistan monorail.
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