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First Impressions 1
Posted: Jun 20, 2012
This will be a short blog post -- I mainly want to let my gentle readers know that The Mob has arrived safe and well if a bit strung out in Addis Ababa. After 13 hours in the air (from Washington, D.C.), it then took us two hours to clear ...
The Jumping-Off Point
Posted: Jun 19, 2012
Waiting. We call it "travel", but it is composed of waiting. If an elevator is a box that moves you to another floor, a plane is a tube that moves you to another place. The plane travels, but we wait. It is 5:30pm in Ethiopia; 10:30am in ...
The Gang's All Here
Posted: Jun 19, 2012
It's 5:30am and we have all made it past security and are waiting to board the flight. To Washington D.C. and beyond!
A Shout Out to the Marquesas Islands
Posted: Jun 18, 2012
In the category of things you didn't know that you needed to know: If you were to dig a tunnel straight through the earth from Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, did you know that it would come out in the Marquesas Islands? (Well, about 70 miles off shore, so ...
Packing Day
Posted: Jun 18, 2012
Today is packing day. It still seems unreal that in a little over 40 hours from now I will be in another continent. How does one prepare for that? In some ways, we have prepared for Africa as if it is a disease state. Hepatitis ...