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again! murchison one week later

May 13th, 2008 · No Comments

another great trip up to murchison falls national park. plenty of photos and comments over at philsgood photo a day. highlights included lions, birds, breakdowns and a new place to stay.

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Tags: Phil · Tourism · Uganda

heading back north

May 8th, 2008 · No Comments

paige was jealous (and rightly so) that i got to see the lions, so i’m going to pick her up in pakwach and we’re going to spend a couple days in murchison. planning on camping out on the delta. i got a nifty little stove today at the gas station. it’s a four-liter propane tank […]

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Tags: Phil · Tourism · Uganda

weekend in murchison

May 5th, 2008 · 1 Comment

paige is in arua for ten days heading a training session for her malaria project. i’m holding down the fort with the cats, and on thursday (international labour day, public holiday) tom came over to help me in the garden. he’s currently a deputy director for save the children africa but is also a big-time […]

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Tags: Phil · Tourism · Uganda

monday updates one month later

April 28th, 2008 · No Comments

ok, time to do some housecleaning so i can start with the updates again. to summarize: paige’s parents visited and we went all over the place. paige is growing in a big way. she’s been busy at work. i’ve been busy on the computer. we are here for only five more weeks.

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Tags: Phil · Tourism · Uganda

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 […]

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Tags: Phil · Tourism

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 […]

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Tags: Phil · Tourism · Uganda

ssese islands - labor day

September 5th, 2007 · No Comments

labor day weekend, the quintessential end-of-summer last hurrah at the lake…normally fox lake (andersons) or lake superior (bowens), but this year lake victoria (anderson bowens). reeling from a week of nastily coinciding work and personal issues, i desperately needed a getaway just me and phil. with just 2+ days and not much money, […]

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Tags: Paige · Tourism · Uganda

year one x2

June 27th, 2007 · No Comments

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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Tags: Paige · Thailand · Tourism · Uganda

nangyuan island

June 24th, 2007 · 1 Comment

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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Tags: Paige · Thailand · Tourism

20 hours in bangkok

June 17th, 2007 · No Comments

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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Tags: Paige · Thailand · Tourism