The road to Haiti is long and exciting. Once you wake up and step out the door, everything is a new experience.
Arrive in Haiti and one of the things you first see are the people living on the whim's of the sun and the rain, and the beams of sugar cane that you can sell at the market. This is a land that can be seen under many different aspects. Beauty being one of them. The natural beauty seen here in the mountains and the sea, the clouds and sunshine, along with the vivid colors, all go to create a landscape that is truly breathtaking.
Everything here is unfamiliar. There is a sense that all has been assembled out of dreams and an unpolished veneer of reality. Poverty is yet another unfamiliar element, poverty being more extreme here than anywhere else in the hemisphere, more extreme than imagination.
Almost.
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