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USA

October 3, 2011 by

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It´s really been a long time since we last posted… We have finally crossed the USA and if there is something we all agree upon is that the US iss a huge country where you find enormous contrasts. Here you will find a wide repertoire of landscapes, colors and people. Trying to describe it would […]

Crossing North America

September 11, 2011 by

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On our way across the USA we stopped at the Colorado State University at Fort Collins for a discussion with Carl Hammerdorfer, Director of their Global & Sustainable Enterprise MBA. They are offering an interdisciplinary program developed by a group of academic and practitioners with background in entrepreneurship in developed and developing economies. Their students […]

El Relato de Caro

September 10, 2011 by

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Llegaron los últimos días en África, y los aprovechamos para visitar la Ciudad del Cabo y sus alrededores. Pudimos despedirnos de la vegetación Africana caminando por la curiosa Montaña de las Mesa, una de las más antiguas del mundo. Escalamos hasta la cima con algunas complicaciones ya que Mona tenía vértigo, y además hacia mucho […]

Oyvin on diabetes #1 (Spanish under)

August 20, 2011 by

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I started writing this while waiting to catch our plane from Cape Town to New York and I am continuing today after we have passed through Stamford, Boston and Montreal. It’s busy being a traveler… For several weeks I have been thinking about writing something about “diabetes on-the-go”. However, I have continuously been finding excuses […]

Oyvin´s perspectives 2

August 6, 2011 by

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I am writing this while sitting in front of a fireplace in a “backpacker’s” in Kestle, a little town located in the Drakensberg´s mountains located between Johannesburg and Durban. It is snowing outside and we are all very pleased to be indoor and not in our tents… Snow in Africa South Africa is a country […]

Adriana´s thoughts on Swaziland, Lesotho and South Africa

August 3, 2011 by

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Impressions on the little hilly country Swaziland Swaziland, the little country on the border of Mozambique which lies in within the South African nation; there is where we arrived, after being in Mozambique for about three weeks. We encountered many unexpected differences for two neighboring countries which we thought would be more similar… …from palm […]

Impresiones de Alex (Maputo y Kruger Park)

August 2, 2011 by

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Maputo, capital de Mozambique Llegamos a Maputo, capital de Mozambique, después de 3 semanas de mucha calma en pequeños pueblos de la costa, pueblos tranquilos,, sencillos, pueblos a los que no mueve el tiempo, sino que se mueven con el tiempo. Maputo, en cambio, es la primera ciudad que vemos en largo tiempo, y de […]

El rollo de la Mona

July 12, 2011 by

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Nos acercamos ya casi a la tercera semana de viaje y apenas ahora empezamos a creer lo que estamos haciendo. No es fácil encontrar el momento para escribir, pues siempre hay algo más que hacer, ni tampoco es fácil encontrar el lugar para conectarnos. Poco a poco nos vamos adaptando a la vida errante de […]

Oyvin´s Perspectives

July 12, 2011 by

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We have now been traveling for 20 days and have little by little warmed up the individual “engines” of the team. We are starting to both understand and appreciate individual differences and learning how to deal with them. It also feels as if we have almost shaken our rented VW van to the ground on […]

Southern Africa

July 4, 2011 by

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Well the trip has started! After so much planning and telling people about the adventure it was kind of a relief to get going. We have to admit that we had a tough start. But the truth is that there are so many things you have to think of before embarking in one of these […]