I guess I'm used to the white-bread grocery stores back east.  Tonight, I went into Food City here in Sierra Vista, Arizona, to get my malaria prescription filled, and was wandering around the store talking to Eric. One of the first things I saw were t… more »

I wrote in a note on FaceBook (this was before my blog was started) that I had gone to Coronado National Monument.  That's the one where I was too chicken to go in a cave all by myself.  Ahem. Anyway, a buddy and I went back to the park and climbed Cor… more »

That's what I felt like saying this morning when, at the medical clinic, they proceeded to give me the flu shot, hepatitis b shot, typhoid shot, anthrax shot and smallpox shot. I don't know that I've ever been so close to fainting in my life.  I'm not… more »

...I rested.  This is my last "off" day until I come home around Easter.  I've spent a good chunk of it sleeping and lazing about. The schedule of work overseas is 12 hours a day, 7 days a week.  So if I have luggage under my eyes when I come home fo… more »

I went to Chiricahua National Monument today.  I got into the park free because it's National Free Public Land Use Day (or something like that).  Whatever.  I wasn't going to say no.  I thought I'd be able to stop and get something to eat along the way… more »