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Tuesday, September 18, 2007

Camaraderie in Malawi

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There were eleven of us in the transformational journey group that traveled to Malawi. We ranged in age from 22to the mid-60s with eight wom...
Tuesday, September 11, 2007

Tires

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On our second full day in Malawi Luzu had to get the spare tire on the van fixed. This was the day we drove from Lilongwe to Senga Bay with ...
Thursday, September 06, 2007

Riding in pickup trucks

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I experienced another first while I was traveling in Malawi, seeing 20 people or more crammed in the open back cargo area of a pickup truck....
Saturday, September 01, 2007

Minibuses in Malawi

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Common forms of transportation in Malawi are minibuses. The van that our group rented, driven by Luzu, was about the size of what I would ca...
Wednesday, August 29, 2007

Sharing the road

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When I first got to Malawi, sharing the road with walkers, people on bicycles, ox carts, goats took some getting used to. The scene on the r...
Tuesday, August 28, 2007

Private Toilets and cell telephones

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I went back and read the first posts I made from Malawi on June 14 (the day of my arrival) and June 15 (my first full day). The idea being t...
Saturday, August 25, 2007

A little more about Luzu

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I want to spend a little more time telling you about Luzu, one of our two drivers in Malawi. One of the things about Luzu that was interesti...
Friday, August 17, 2007

Back from Vermont

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I have been back from Vermont for four days now. It turns out that with the exception of my “diary”, I did no writing to speak of. So, I hav...
Monday, August 06, 2007

Hello from Vermont

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I am one week into my vacation. A very nice and welcome interlude here in the Northeast Kingdom of Vermont. The usual vacation activities. I...
Sunday, July 29, 2007

Off to the North East Kingdom of Vermont

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I am off to my cabin in the Northeast Kingdom of Vermont for two weeks. Sans internet access. Will try to post periodically when I am in pla...
Thursday, July 26, 2007

First Impressions of Malawi

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One of the many people that we met when we were in Malawi asked us about our first impressions of Malawi. I told him that my first impressio...
Wednesday, July 25, 2007

A tribute to our drivers, part 2: Luzu

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I have talked about Luzu elsewhere in this blog, so those of you who have been following along have already been introduced to him through m...
Friday, July 20, 2007

Caught up with responding to your comments

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I have finally sat down and responded to all the comments to my blog going back to the start of my trip. So, feel free to go back and read t...
Thursday, July 19, 2007

A tribute to our drivers: Part 1, Don

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I left Malawi three weeks ago. It has taking me that long to begin to process what I experienced in Malawi. Towards the end of my travels i...
Monday, July 16, 2007

Doing other things while processing Malawi trip

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I am still here, but have found the need to hold off on writing about Malawi while I continue to process all that I experienced. So, for the...
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Monday, July 09, 2007

More on Bwaila (aka Bottom) Hospital

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Well before I left for Malawi, I knew from reading e-mailed journals of a physician who traveled in 2006 to Malawi with Don and Mary Thomas ...
Sunday, July 08, 2007

And simple joys

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Lest I get too melancoly, there were the simple joys that I witnessed: The joy in Don and Mary's voice as they talked about the hope tha...

Uninmangeable poverty

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When I went to Malawi I knew that it was one of the poorest countries in the World. I knew that I would witness a level of poverty that I ha...
Thursday, July 05, 2007

How was your trip?

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How was your trip? This seems like a very simple question. I've been going on vacations and the occasional trip out of town for business...
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Tuesday, July 03, 2007

Almost back to normal time and more pictures

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I am almost back to normal time, which in my case is Eastern Daylight Time. That is, I went to bed at a normal time for me, around 11 PM and...