BACK-TO-SCHOOL SEASON WITH LABOR DAY START TO A NEW YEAR

1. Sep-A-1  Index to the Sep-A-series
2. The densely crowded schedule of early 2003, with competing travel schedules superposed.
3. A last minute salvage of our Cumberland Island plans.
4. The Labor Day weekend—with the traditional early morning long run for each of our holidays.
5. The story of Shafkat’s close call, saved by pulse oximetry.
6. My “case for a TV documentary” finds a ready reception in a producer whom I last met flying over the Brooks Range in Alaska.
7.   With Kay’s help, I have sent all the GPS data for GIS mapping of the “Roof of the World”
8. And, now, the “Sky Is the Limit”, as I plot out the other long remote treks I have made for GIS mapping of the GPS data I have gathered in Asia, Africa, South America, Alaska, Antarctica, and Mountain Treks USA—Rockies, Sierras, Cumberland.
9. Introductions of Dan Wikler and Paul Farmer, both at Harvard, but the latter in Haiti at this time, while enticing Dan to join in the next Lingshed Trek.
10. Invitation to Paul Farmer in Haiti for a GWU visit as well as an introduction to Dan Wikler, currently a Harvard-mate.
11. The correspondence with Tenzin Geycha, personal secretary to His Holiness, the Dali Lama XIV, regarding Panetics and Buddhist scholars.
12. Shot down in meeting with my Dissertation Committee, who dismiss my thesis proposal, and recommend dropping out of the degree, if no library-based bibliographic search is to be done as the centerpiece of a post modern thesis work.
13. A series of taxidermy pickups and a quick trip to the Eastern Shore to visit the Schaefers, and to Zimmerman’s in Pennsylvania to pick up the Kamchatka Snow Sheep Ram.

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