This is a serious hike up, and we know the pictures just don't do it justice or capture the steepness of the climb. And our friends from Tierra Linda do this all day, every day. It's humbling to consider how lazy our ordinary lives are in Abbotsford (drive to work, sit in office, drive to store, drive home). Compare that to walk down mountain, farm onions, walk to market to buy food, walk up mountain again.
We're learning that the people of Tierra Linda are virtually all farmers, who look after the fields below the village. Very few are involved in the local fabric industry, tourism, or other related occupations. Some are involved in construction, but many of them work in the onion fields or dig gravel in the riverbed.
Saturday, February 28, 2009
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What a wonder-full life experience you are choosing to immerse yourselves in. The more 'stairs'/Tierra Linda pathways you climb, it seems the more it would strengthen your connection with the people and the land...and, on a more shallow, but no less important note - the more you can enjoy Adele's baking! :) (I hope she'll have a South African Melktart waiting when we come! )
Climb on...
Melody
Hi Dave and Danaya,
Sorry, life happened and we haven't been on the blog for a while. Looks like things are going pretty well. Alex spoke in church this morning about his planned trip. I noticed the entry about your landlady's hotel. I assume those prices are in American dollars. How much (Canadian) would the meals cost? Our tentative plans for Spring Break fell through, so I just was curious about this. I doubt we could do it, but who knows.
Roy
just testing for ursula.
Would have loved to have climbed with you all. Finding it easier to visualize having been there. Surely, the people there appreciate your efforts to understand their difficult way of life.
In contrast, our mountainside in Abbotsford today (Sunday, March 1st) is covered with snow, not onions.
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