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In taking this blog thing for a test drive, I am throwing up some random photos that make me smile. Such as this one, the resident monkey from our hostel in Ciudad Bolivar, Venezuela. Who doesn't love an adorable monkey? Who?? Or a cuddly wuddly anaconda? Who, I ask?

Here it goes...Really.

In the past, I have bought journals, all with evocative covers and blank pages intended to hold the written memories of my adventures. They, each and every one of them, have sat pristinely untouched. When asked to share my travels in book or blog form, I have deferred to these journals that I will get around to any day now , or in more honest moments, conceded that I should just start a blog. Well, that moment has finally arrived. This is my sole New Year's resolution. I intend to post at least once a month, thus the title, and detail one of the places that I have been, things I have done, people I have met, etc. during that month. I am counting on you, my brutally honest friends, to hold me to this resolution. Note that I am not promising that these places, exploits, or people will be in any way interesting, only that they will be written about. Let's not get our hopes up too high, now. The January adventure will most likely be coming at the end of the month. Shawn and I have