After a week of hard-core tourist activity, we decided to slow things down a bit. Allie and I found a fabric shop tucked into the third floor of a neglected department store called La Linda in downtown Oranjestad. The store even had a greeter in a top hat, perched on a pile of junk. Fortunately,…
I begin with an aside. Normally, an aside comes after the initial theme has been established. But Mel doesn’t do things in the normal order. So here it is at the start: an aside. Yesterday, the Burnetts had an awesome day. They were tourists. They visited Aruba’s Butterfly Farm, then Philip’s Animal Farm, and then…
Given how short the distance is between Colombia, Venezuela, and Aruba, one who didn’t pay attention to history would think we would encounter a slightly modified version of Latin American culture here. On the contrary, Aruba has proven to be delightfully complex. Imagine a satellite of South America run by the Dutch for a few…
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