i wrote this in haiti, overlooking cuba

Robbie is in Haiti for a week for some work meetings. If you have talked to Robbie for more than five minutes, you probably know that he is living out a life-long dream. Well, not life-long, but maybe a dream he's had for eight or nine years. Here are some pictures he sent me for you to enjoy.

The house (house?? mansion??) he is staying in

The food he is eating

Béatrice, the mansion's head turkey

A view

Some foliage

A wildly painted truck used as public transportation (aka "taptap")—every third world country's gotta have one!

An art "museum" in Port-au-Prince

Neg Mawon, an iconic Port-au-Prince piece

The National Palace in ruins

More National Palace

From what he has sent me, I can tell that Port-au-Prince is a beautiful and sad place. I'm only a little jealous, really. Not jealous that he had to take malaria pills. And that he has bodyguards that sit outside his house at night. (I'm trying not to think about that part.) Okay, I'm not all that jealous. I will just sit at home and listen to my Wyclef CDs instead.

(BTW, photos were edited using CameraBag 2, a new desktop photo editing app that I'm having some fun with. Like Instagram, but with more filters and more control over what you're doing.)