I bought one of these women’s hammocks at the Nicaraguan border. She makes them by hand and sells them for $5. I stretched the hammock between pillars on the upstairs deck just outside my room overlooking the Pacific Ocean at Campanario, and it has become my favorite place to lounge at the field station. I read in the hammock (hamaca in Spanish), take my siesta in the hamaca and envision new projects and adventures while lying in the hamaca gazing out to sea. I tried sleeping in it one sweltering night, but the mosquitoes drove me back into my room, where I am sheltered behind screens. Next purchase: a mosquito net so I can sleep outside at night.
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good for you, woman of wonder! I’m feeling connected to you as I love the hamaca too…attending Inter=cambios here, speaking in English and then Spanish for 1/2 hour each with wonderful immigrants and locals from STL…and working with La Oroya Peru and the corporation Doe Run who is polluting with lead, arsenic and mercury - dear Mother, forgive us.