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…but malaria didn’t kill me. after a year of living in the world’s malaria epicenter (a.k.a. sub-saharan africa), i finally got malaria. the catch is i had to go to thailand to get it. i went to bed late friday night with a fever and complaining that my whole body hurt. […]

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we did something crazy last year this time.  we got married then 3 weeks later we moved to africa.  supposedly the “big” events in adult life are marriage, moving, starting a new job, and going back to school.  we did 3 out of 4 in less than a month.  all worked out great, though, and […]

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i can’t remember exactly where our friends A&G went for their honeymoon, but i do know that it was a tropical island where they planned to snorkel and swim in the clear blue ocean and enjoy the sunshine on white sand beaches. as it turns out, they had maybe one day of sunshine their […]

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we got back from thailand a week ago and i’m working to get all of our travel stories onto the blog. i was out in the field (ssembabule) last week and as is always the case when i’m there i was super motivated to write, so i’ve caught up some on the thailand writing. […]

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we spent two days in bangkok. the first day was a travel day between chiang mai and surat thani (8 hours in bangkok on flight layover), the second day was a travel day from nangyuan island en route to kampala (12 hours in bangkok between train arrival and flight departure).
air travel within thailand is […]

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thailand is famous for its elephants; elephants are a center of national identity (a white elephant was on the thai flag until the late 1910s) and a main draw for tourists. we chose to go to thailand because that was the lonely planet available at the bookstore and because we wanted to see the […]

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we’re in thailand, not uganda. did you know that? it’s obvious to us with the 16+ hour travel, 4 hour time difference, and smoothly paved roads with stoplights. sorry to the respective anderson and bowen fams for not posting sooner so you knew we were safe and sound…
we flew entebbe to addis […]

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minnesota’s northwoods are on fire. the boundary waters canoe area and homes around the gunflint trail are burning, leaving devastation in the ashes. most likely cause: a campfire. the bowen half of anderson bowen is watching the fire’s progress closely as it comes down the trail nearer to grand marais.
i came across […]

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when we moved here we decided that we would take one trip per month outside of kampala. we figured it could be so easy to live here for years and never leave the city because we’d fall into routines and such. we’ve stuck to that plan pretty well with some months filled-in with […]

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i don’t talk much about my job on this blog. i should talk about it more since it’s the reason we’re here, but the day-to-day is the most difficult to make interesting. especially since, what do i do? i manage. trust me, though, this “day in the life of a manager” […]

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