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Charles Wiegand

Roaming South America

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Happy New Year and why are you feeling sad?

January 1, 2020

New Year's Celebration in Cartagena, Colombia

New Year's Eve - why do people "feel kind of sad"? That is what I hear from people, even right now on CNN the talking heads are saying that. I don't understand it. I don't feel sad. I've never felt sad at the changing of the year. I don't understand why people would feel sad for the year changing. Why don't you feel happy that you have another year to look forward to? Another year to maybe make changes in your life.

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Happy New Year

December 31, 2019

The Aduana (customs) building in Barranquilla, built in 1919.

Another year is behind us,
We made mistakes, you and I,
What will we do about them?
Dwell on them until we are bitter and sad?
Or put them away and move forward?
Move forward to where? A new year,
A new opportunity, to write a new chapter,
in the story of our lives.
I, for one, am looking forward
to what might be in store for me.
I wish everyone a great and fantastic 2020!

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Merry Christmas

December 25, 2019

Christmas display in one of the city parks. Merry Christmas to everybody! I hope everyone has a great day. Read More

Bodyweight Exerice Routine

December 18, 2019

Me at the Bocas de Ceniza in 2015

Many people dismiss bodyweight exercises as too easy or too boring. Usually those people think only of pushups and lunges and leave it at that. Well, that’s just not the case. The number of bodyweight exercises is just about countless, and you can probably think of variations of your own.

One of the nice things about bodyweight exercises is you are not limited to the gym. You can do them anywhere – at home, at your workplace, in a hotel room, at the beach, in a park.

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Website updates

September 29, 2019

Along a road in Barranquilla

I have finished a rewrite of the website. What you see when you are reading it appears to be the same, but what happens on the server with the actual pages has changed. I have reduced the number of pages while also increasing the number of pages you can read. For example, I've added the page that has my writings - poems, essays, etc. Nevertheless, the overall number of pages that are used by the site has been reduced.

The home page loads the latest blog from a database, and it includes a few very small files which contain the other sections - the top of the page with the picture and byline, the right-column with my pic and bio, the weather and the Google translator, and finally at the bottom the footer. Each of those are small files that rare need to be touched.

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Chip Wiegand

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I used to teach English as a foreign language in Barranquilla, Colombia. Now I'm retired and traveling throughout South America.

I'm from Kennewick, Washington, USA. In my previous life, as I call it, I was an IT guy, systems administrator, computer tech, as well as a shipping/receiving guy and also worked as a merchandising guy in a RV/Camping store.

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