Mark Robertson

After 25 years living in or around North County San Diego, Mark Robertson moved to Colombia to teach. After two years, he and his wife, Vanessa, took a new teaching position in Brazil. He spends his time educating internationals in Brasília, re-upping at "home" (Encinitas), or traveling throughout Latin America. He is a book-eater, Panamerican peripatetic, mythmaker, "lover-liar and magic-bean-buyer." In 2012 he plans to relocate permanently to North County and finish his graduate work at UCSD. You can read his blog here.

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Rio Beauty Salons

I picked the wrong year to stop sniffing glue – but of that, later. The following post makes me vulnerable A) because I'm not given to beauty salons anywhere, and B) you'd never find it ...

Board Swap in Cardiff

On Saturday, May 5, the parking lot behind Patagonia Cardiff was flanked with surfboards of all shapes and ages and surfers of all shapes and ages: a “board swap.” Auctioneer and store manager Roy Coffman ...

Tidal Living in Bahia, Brazil

Those who abide in the coastal state of Bahia in northeastern Brazil live according to something like "tidal time": when it ebbs, and it ebbs hundreds of meters, it's time for business; when it flows, ...

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