paige’s parents are here. we have a busy two weeks ahead starting 6:30 tomorrow am. ssembabule > lake mburo national park > bushara island on lake bunyonyi > bwindi impenetrable forest (gorillas!) > ishasha in queen elizabeth national park > masaka > home. a day to recover, then driving to arua to deliver their new […]
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monday updates
March 18th, 2008 · No Comments
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grand marais in the new york times
February 29th, 2008 · No Comments
the new york times travel section published an article today on grand marais and the local cross country ski touring scene. check it out here. they also have an eight-image slide show that you can see here. north house, sivertson’s gallery, and scenery are all featured. the article is pretty good and doesn’t seem to […]
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monday updates
February 25th, 2008 · No Comments
ultimate, pregnancy, frostbite, cats. all inside!
ultrasound x 2
February 15th, 2008 · 5 Comments
in december i was feeling some weirdness in my lower abdomen and it had gotten to the point that i was ready to talk to a doctor about it. paige had some abdominal interests of her own, so we decided to take a field trip over to international hospital kampala (ihk) to investigate.
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left - right
February 14th, 2008 · No Comments
people ask me if i have a hard time adjusting to driving on the other side of the road. other than the first few times, the short answer is no. now that it’s been a while, both here and in the states it just seems natural. i always screw up the turn signal and the […]
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44 hours in seat 11a
January 16th, 2008 · 1 Comment
i’m heading to north america tonight. i’ll be in canmore, alberta shooting xc skiing world cup races for a week, then home in grand marais for two weeks. 60+ inches of snowfall already this winter!? sweet.
i got the cheapest ticket home that we’ve seen yet. $1650. yeah, cheap is relative when it comes to travel […]
rita the land cruiser (filling in the blanks)
January 14th, 2008 · No Comments
just because i didn’t post for six+ months doesn’t mean nothing was going on. it was actually a pretty eventful (in a good way) year. i’ll see if i can work on the backlog and fill in some of the blanks. here’s a car story from sep/oct. check the photos here after you read the […]
lizard tales
January 9th, 2008 · 2 Comments
the cats have taught me something that i never knew about lizards.
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the back 9
January 5th, 2008 · 1 Comment
we’ve been here a year and a half. which means we have a year and a half to go. half-way(?!), where did that go? and after bragging that we had put up 100 posts in the first six months we were here, we’ve pretty much fallen off a cliff since then. i’ll try to start […]
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the aviary that is our yard
January 3rd, 2008 · 2 Comments
this morning i decided to see how many birds i could ID in our yard today. i came up with 23. + one raptor that i couldn’t figure out. 19 before i left for the coffee shop with the morning papers. i’d say that’s pretty typical - the number of birds i saw, that is. […]