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Wednesday, May 20th, 2009
Gezuar, Shqiperi!
I’m officially no longer a Peace Corps Volunteer. I’m going back to America tomorrow, for the first time since March 22, 2007. Two years has gone by quickly, and it’s hard to express and digest what I’ve harvested from this experience. I have become comfortably numb. On the eve of my departure, here are some [...]
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Saturday, May 9th, 2009
Skanderbeg’s Castles
I completed the Skanderbeg Castle trifecta this week. The Albanian hero Skanderbeg built/rebuilt these three castles on hilltops in the northwest of Albania to defend against the Ottomans in the first half of the 15th century. Each was about 30 km away from one another, and by lighting signal fires, they could warn each other [...]
