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Wednesday, July 2, 2008

117 - Kwakoegroa, Surinam

50mi. S of Paramaribo. I'm pretty sure I transcribed it right, but Google turns up nothing. There's a Kwakoe festival in Amsterdam, celebrating Dutch-Surinamese culture, though.

A Word of Explanation

I keep a 1977 London Times Atlas open on my bedroom dresser. Every morning, as part of my getting-ready ritual, I flip the page to see the next map-plate, and play a little game, scanning the map to find a city or other feature that starts with a letter of the alphabet. I jot it down in my little notebook. The next day, I turn the page and set about finding something that starts with the next letter. So on through the atlas, across the globe, and down the alphabet from A to Z and all over again.

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Wednesday, July 2, 2008

117 - Kwakoegroa, Surinam

A Word of Explanation

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