Malawi Mission 2002

2006 Series

SPRING BLOSSOMS ECLIPSED BY THE INTENSIVE COMPS WEEK FOR THE PASSAGE INTO ABD DOCTORAL STAGE (Apr-A-Series)
RE-ENTRY AFTER RWANDA (Mar-B-Series)
THE MEDICAL MISSION TO RWANDA (Mar-A-Series)
BEGUN IN AN EAST COAST BLIZZARD, A VISIT TO IOWA FOR SOME LONG RANGE PLANNING AND “IRISH RUN” (Feb-B-Series)
BEGIN IN SANTA ROSA IN GRAND ROUNDS WITH KEVIN BERGMAN TO RETURN FOR RE-ENTRY FROM PHILIPPINES (Feb-A-Series)
Mindanao Mission series (Jan-B-Series)
THE NEW YEAR AWAITING A DERWOOD VISITOR (Jan-A-Series)

2005 Series

CHRISTMAS HOLIDAY VISITS TO FAMILY AND FRIENDS (Dec-B-Series)
THE BUSY RE-ENTRY WEEKS FOLLOWING THANKSGIVING AND PRECEDING THE ELDP FINALS AND CHRISTMAS PREP (Dec-A-Series)
THE THANKSGIVING WEEK AND THE MD HUNTS OF AUTUMN (Nov-B-Series)
POST-MARATHON, SURPRISE DEVELOPMENTS, ELDP WEEKEND AND TRIP TO GAINESVILLE FOR DONALD VISIT (Nov-A-Series)
A SPECTACULAR FALL SEASON BEGINS WITH A SAN ANTONIO VISIT WITH GRNADSONS, A SPECATULAR SUCCESSFUL COLORADO ELK HUNT, A SUCCESSFUL AORTIC VALVE REPLACEMENT FOR DONALD, AND PROCEEDS TO A VERY SPECIAL MARINE CORPS MARATHON (Oct-C-Series)
ELDP DURING RAINY WEEKEND OF DERWOOD CONTINUING DELIVERY DISASTERS, AND LAUNCH SAN ANTONIO AND DENVER TRAVELS (Oct-B-Series)
FROM THE ARMY TEN MILER THROUGH THE ELDP: FIRST WEEK OF OCTOBER SERIES BEFORE DEPARTURE FOR TEXAS AND COLORADO. (Oct-A-Series)
RE-ENTRY AFTER OPERATION LIFELINE IN LOUISIANA TO RECONSTRUCTION OF MY OWN DERWOOD DISASTER (Sep-B-Series)
LABOR DAY AND BACK-TO-SCHOOL 2005, INTERRUPTED BY RAPID DEPLOYMENT TO A NATIONAL EMERGENCY INTO THE EYE OF THE STORM KATRINA’S AFTERMATH (Sep-A-Series)
RE-ENTRY AFTER A MONTH’S ABSENCE IN EUROPE, ASIA AND AFRICA WITH A RETURN INTO DERWOOD DISASTER AND THE ELDP COURSE CONCLUSION OF SUMMER -2005 (Aug-C-Series)
OPENING A NEW AFRICAN ADVENTURE: FROM AZERBAIJAN THROUGH EUROPE TO ASMARA, ERITREA(Aug-B-Series)
TOURING BAKU AZERBAIJAN AND PREPARING FOR DEPARTURE TO ERITREA, AFRICA. (Aug-A-Series)
AZERBAIJAN CAUCASUS ADVENTURE (Jul-C-Series)
LAUNCH TRAVEL MONTH TO AZERBAIJAN AND ERITREA (Jul-B-Series)
HIGH (AND HOT) AS A KITE ON THE FOURTH OF JULY1 (Jul-A-Series)

2004 Series

UCSF GRAND ROUNDS, HARKEN VISIT AND HALSTED SOCIETY MEETING IN SAN FRANCISCO (Sep-B-Series)
“BACK TO SCHOOL” SEASON BEGINS WITH LABOR DAY WEEK ( Sep-A-Series)
CLOSING DAYS OF AUGUST SUMMER WITH BACK-TO-SCHOOL PLANS FOR ALL STUDENTS—AND ME (Aug-B-Series)
RE-ENTRY FROM HAITI TO SUMMERTIME DC AND DERWOOD (Aug-A-Series)
THE HAITI MEDICAL MISSION WITH PROJECT MEDISHARE (Jul-C-Series)
MEDICAL MISSION TO DR/HAITI THROUGH BRA AND PROJECT MEDISHARE (Jul-B-Series)
OPENING THE NEW SERIES OF SUMMER IN DERWOOD ENVIRONS (Jul-A-Series)
ELDP “boot camp” residence (Jun-B-Series)
THE START OF SUMMER-04,VIRGINIA'S VISIT, AND THE PREP FOR THE DOCTORAL PROGRAM (Juin-A-Series)
Return from AMAZON, sorting photos, and travel to MICHIGAN for family visit and river bank run. (May-B-Series)
From BELEM , BRAZIL to DERWOOD, to re-settling (May-A-Series)
The amazing AMAZON (April-C-Series)
Brief return to dc/derwood between FAR EAST and AMAZON (April-B-Series)
Continuing the visiting professorship at Nanhua University in Taiwan ( April-A-Series)
Launch west coast and Far East travels, as Derwood is finishing the last details of completion. ( Mar-B-Series)
March comes in like a lamb, as the index to the first march series begins ( Mar-A-Series)
The ethiopian series opens with Gondar college of medical sciences (Feb-C-Series)

Final phase of Somaliland medical mission to Berbera and the red Swea to conclude back in Hargeisa (Feb-B-Series)
Launching the Expedition To “THE HORN OF AFRICA (Feb-A-Series)
PLANS FOR AN AFRICAN SURGICAL EXPEDITION (Jan-B-Series)
THE START OF THE NEW YEAR 2004 (Jan-A-Series)

2003 Series

THE CHRISTMAS TIME TRAVEL BY BRONCO TO NY, IL, MI AND RETURN HOME BY AIR (Dec-B-Series)
FROM THE DEER HUNTING IN MARYLAND, TO THE PREPPING FOR LATER DECEMBER TRAVELS, AND A YEAR-FULL OF ADVENTURES AWAITING SCHEDULING AFTER THE REPORTING OF THIS YEAR'S EVENTS IN “THE YEAR OF COMMENCEMENT” NOW BEING MAILED OUT (Dec-A-Series)
THANKSGIVING AND THE HUNTS OF AUTUMN (Nov-B-Series)
NOV-A-SERIES BEGINS IN SAN ANTONIO TEXAS AND CONTINUES THROUGH ANOTHER MARATHON AND EVENTS IN MARYLAND ( Nov-A-Series)
RE-ENTRY FROM 2003'S FINAL FOREGN MEDICAL MISSION, AND THE BEGINNING OF FALL MARATHON SEASON (Oct-C-Series)
INAUGURAL MEDICAL MISSION TO SIKKIM AND WEST BENGAL (Oct-B-Series)
LAUNCHING THE SIKKIM-03 EXPEDITION.POSSIBLY THE LAST OF THE 2003 INTERNATIONALS (Oct-A-Series)
STORMY RE-ENTRY ON RETURN FROM ALASKA AND INTO THE PATHWAY OF HURRICANE ISABEL (Sept-B-Series)
“NORTH TO ALASKA-IV”: THE MOOSE IS LOOSE! (Sept-A-Series)
RE-ENTRY TO DC AND DERWOOD, FOLLOWING THE DELAYED "PASSAGE OUT OF INDIA" (Aug-B-Series)
THE LINGSHED-03 TREK (Aug-A-Series)
TAKE-OFF FOR INDIA, LEAVING A WHIRLWIND OF DERWOOD ACTIVITY BEHIND (Jul-B-Series)
THE FOURTH OF JULY WEEK PACKING UP DERWOOD (Jul-A-Series)
RE-ENTRY FROM HAITI TO DERWOOD AND SUMMER PROLOGUE (Jun-C-Series)
MEDICAL MISSION TO HAITI WITH PROJECT MEDISHARE (Jun-B-Series)
MONSOON MAY IS OVER AND JUNE SUMMER BEGINS (Jun-A-Series)
RE-ENTRY FROM AFRICA TO GWUMC COMMENCEMENT (May-C-Series)
A LUXURIOUS SAFARI INTO WHAT IS CALLED THE “REAL AFRICA” - BY AIR INTO ZAMBIA, TO MFUWE LODGE, TO TOUR ZAMBIA’S LEGENDARY SOUTH LUANGWA NATIONAL PARK (May-B-Series)
MISSION TO MALAWI--PART II (May-A-Series)
MEDICAL MISSION TO MALAWI-‘03 (Apr-C-Series)
MID-APRIL BEGINS WITH A VERY LONG RUN, TRAVELS THROUGH FLORIDA AND NEW YORK, AND ENDS IN THE 107^TH RUNNING OF THE BOSTON MARATHON (Apr-B-Series)
THE LONG RUNNING START OF APRIL, THE CRUELEST MONTH (Apr-A-Seies)
SPRING’S RELUCTANT RETURNS AS “LONG RUNS” RESUME (Mar-B-Series)
March Begins with the snowmelt of the Blizzard of MD-03, and plans for future hunts, runs, and adventures when the spring thaw returns (Mar-A-Series)
SECOND HALF OF FEBRUARY BEGINS WITH U. FLORIDA VISITNG PROFESSORSHIP IN GAINESVILLE (Feb-B-Series)
FOLLOWING RETURN FROM PHILIPPINES (Feb-A-Series)
FINAL PHASE OF PHILIPPINE MEDICAL MISSION TO LEYTE GULF (Jan-D-Series)
MALABALAY, BUKIDNON AT BBH: THE SECOND WEEK AND CHAPTER OF THE “MISSION TO MINDANAO” (Jan-C-Series)
THE MEDICAL MISSION TO MINDANAO-2003 (Jan-B-Series)
THE NEW YEAR BEGINS WITH A RESOLUTION OF SOME OLD YEAR REAL ESTATE CLAIMS, AND A VISIT WITH DONALD AND THE GAINESVILE GRANDCHILDREN (Jan-A-Series)

2002 Series

THE CHRISTMAS JOURNEY TO CHICAGO AND MICHIGAN (Dec-B-Series)
FROM PENNSYLVANIA DEER HUNTING TO RETURN FOR AN EVEN MORE SUCCESSFUL MARYLAND DEER SEASON CONCLUSION,TO MY TAKEOFF FOR CHICAGO AND MICHIGAN HOLIDAYS (Dec-A-Series)
“GPS on the Run” and the Falling Leaves of Fall, as Travel Plans are Finalized (Nov-A-Series)
COLORADO CLIMB AND ROCKY MOUNTAIN HIGH (Oct-B-Series)
FALL EVENTS BEGIN THE MONTH OF OCTOBER (Oct-A-Series)
BACK-TO-SCHOOL SEASON WITH LABOR DAY START TO A NEW YEAR (Sep-A-Series)
THE LINGSHED TREK –02 IN KASHMIR (AUG-B-Series)
INTERVAL IN LEH, LADAKH BETWEEN “LADAKH-02” AND “LINGSHED-02” EXPEDITIONS (AUG-A-Series)
THE LAUNCH OF THE LONG TREK: LADAKH AND LINGSHED (JUL-B-Series)
THE INTERVAL WEEKS BETWEEN SPITI-02 AND LADAKH (JUL-A Series)
THE TRIP TO SPITI IN TIMES OF TROUBLE (JUN-B Series)
INDEX TO THE JUN-A-SERIES (JUN-A-Series)
THE EVEREST TREK ROUTE AND ATTEMPT TO SUMMIT KALA PATTHAR (MAY-B-Series)
THE MAY-A-SERIES OF “NEPAL-02”FROM KATHMANDU TO LUKLA’S MEDICAL CAMP, TO THE EVEREST TREK ROUTE AND ATTEMPT TO SUMMIT KALA PATTHAR (MAY-A-Series)
THE SCRAMBLE FROM UVA CHARLOTTESVILLE THROUGH DERWOOD, DULLES, FRANKFURT, DELHI TO THE DHARAMSALA MEDICAL MISSION (APR-C-Series)
EVENTS AROUND THE 106^TH RUNNING OF THE BOSTON MARATHON, PRE-DEPARTURE FOR DHARAMSALA AND NEPAL (Apr-B-Series)
INDEX TO APRIL, SPRING, EASTER AND CHERRY BLOSSOMS (Apr-A-Series)
A VERY DIFFERENT MAR-B-SERIES THAN THE CUBAN ONE THAT HAD BEEN PLANNED EARLIER (Mar-B-Series)
MEDICAL MISSION TO MALAWI—II (Mar-A-Series)
MEDICAL MISSION TO MALAWI (Feb-C-Series)
MALAYBALAY, MINDANOA (Feb-B-Series)
LAUNCH THE “MISSION TO MINDANAO” (FEB-A-Series)
JAN- B (JAN-B-Series)
JAN-A(JAN-A-Series)

2001 Series

“C”-FOR “CHRISTMAS”-2001 (DEC-C-Series)
CHRISTMAS TIME 2001 (DEC-B-Series)
SERIES BEGINS WITH THE PRE-HOLIDAY RUSH AND TRIPS TO PITTSFIELD MA, AND AKRON, OH (DEC-A-Series)
FALL EVENTS AND VISITS (Nov-A-Series)
FROM THE ACS NEW ORLEANS, TO THE COLORADO ELK HUNT,TO THE INAUGURAL BALTIMORE MARATHON, TO THE STARTLING NEWS ABOUT GARY SIMPSON, AND ON TO THE MARINE CORPS MARATHON 26TH RUNNING (Oct-B-Series)
BEGINNING WITH AN UEXPECTED INTERVAL WEEK IN THE ITINERARYI CONTINUE ON THE PLANNED NEW ORLEANS, ACS, COLORADO ELK HUNT GIGS AND THE INAUGUARL MARATHONS (Oct-A-Series)
THE DELAYED STUTTER START OF THE MULTI-VENUE TRANS-WORLD TREK WITH A HUMBLE START IN FIRST CLASS OF A LUFTHANSA AIRBUS (Sept-C-Series)
A SHAKY START, BUT THE DELAYED ITINERARY IS LAUNCHED! (Sept-B-Series)
"BACK-TO-SCHOOL" INTERVAL WEEK BEFORE THE EXTENSIVE ITINERARIES OF THE NEXT FAR FLUNG MONTHS (September-A-Series)
THE KAMCHATKA BIGHORN SNOW SHEEP AND BIG BROWN BEAR HUNT (Aug-C-Series)
INTERVAL WEEK BETWEEN LADAKH'01 AND KAMCHATKA (Aug-B-Series)
CONCLUDING CLINICS OF EXTENDED LADAKH MEDICAL MISSION (Aug-A-Series)
MEDICAL MISSION TO LADAKH-'02 (Jul-B-Series)
HOT AND HIGH AS A KITE ON THE FOURTH OF JULY (Jul-A-Serires)
RETURN FROM THE BIG HORN ULTRA AND MAKING PLANS FOR THE SUMMER, FALL AND WINTER TRAVEL BLITZES (Jun-C-Series)
TRAVELS TO ANTEPARTUM SAN ANTONIO AND THE BIG HORN ULTRA OF DAYTON WYOMING ( Jun-B-Series)
EVENTS OF THE FIRST COLORADO VISIT AND STEAMBOAT MARATHON(Jun-A-Series)
RE-ENTRY AFTER INDIA AND RUN RACES FROM DC TO GR (May-B-Series)
MY MESSAGE UPON ARRIVAL ALONG WITH THE “TOTEMS” SENT TO ME BY THE FELLOW I MET AS I EMERGED FROM MY SOLO SESSION IN THE BIR MONASTERY DURING THEIR MANTRA CHANT (May-A-Series)
THE MEDICAL MISSION TO DHARAMSALA (April -C-Series)
APRIL SPRING RUNNING SERIES FROM CHERRY BLOSSOM TO BOSTONAND THE REGISTRATION FOR FURTHER SPRING AND SUMMER RUNS.AND THEN A SERIES OF “WEEKLY FALL MARATHONS” ( April-B-Series)
FIRST OF APRIL SERIES AS SPRING SHOULD BE COMING SOON (April-A-Series)
FROM ST. PATRICK’S DAY TO THE BERKSHIRES (Mar-C-Series)
RE-ENTRY, AKRON, AND ST. PADDY’S DAY (Mar-B-Series)
THE MEDICAL MISSIONS INTERNATIONAL (MMI) SURGICAL SAFARI TO TBOLI MINDANAO, PHILIPPINES (Mar-A-Series)
THE NEWS AT DEPARTURE FOR MINDANAO, PHILIPPINES, AND THE LONG JOURNEY BEGINS—WITH BIG NEWS OF TWIN GRANDSONS FORTHCOMING! ( Feb-C-Series)
INTERVAL WEEK BETWEEN ANTARCTICA AND PHILIPPINES IN DERWOOD AND DC AND GWU (Feb-B-Series)
ANTARCTIC ADVENTURES:MARINE EXPEDITIONS ABOARD THE ORLOVA, EXPLORING ANTARCTICA, AND THE RUNNING OF THE ANTARCTIC MARATHON (Feb-A-Series)
JAN-C-SERIES MARKS THE BEGINNING OF THEANTARCTIC RUN (Jan-C-Sereis)
THE CUMBERLAND ISLAND HOG HUNT FROM NANCY’S FANCY AND RETURN VIA SALISBURY TO PAUL SHORB’S RETIREMENT PARTY, AND MY BIRTHDAY CELEBRATION (Jan-B-Series)
A NEW SERIES BEGINS A NEW YEARWHILE LOOKING FORWARD TO THE ANTARCTIC MARATHON (Jan-A-Series)

2000 Series

THE CHRISTMAS SERIES OF EVENTS (Dec-B-Series)
EARLY DECEMBER MARKED BY DISABILITY DAY WITH JOE AND THE PREPARATIOIN OF THE YEAR-END LETTER 2000 (Dec-A-Series)
THE WEEK OF THE MCRRC FALL GEELHOED BREAKFAST RUN (Nov-C-Series)
THE WEEK OF THE SQUEAKY CLOSE ELECTION AND NARROW REPUBLICAN MAJORITY IN ELECTORAL VOTES, HOUSE AND SENATE (Nov-B-Series)
FIRST WEEK OF NOVEMBER BRINGS ANOTHER MARATHON, FUTURE PLANNING AND ELECTION DAY (Nov-A-Series)
THE ACS, CHICAGO, EVANSTON TOUR AND RAVENS/STEELERS GAME ( Oct-C-series )
TRAVEL TO TROY, DETROIT AND DENVER FOR ROCKY MOUNTAIN COLORADO ELK HUNT (Oct-B-Series)
RETURN FROM GEORGE AWARD IN SEARCH OF AN AGENT FOR LITERARY PROMOTION ( Oct-A-Series )
RE-ENTRY FROM CENTRAL ASIA AND FALL "BACK-TO-SCHOOL" AT GW, CLIMAXING IN THE CEREMONY IN NEW YORK AT THE PRESENTATION OF THE GEORGE AWARD "HUMANITARIAN OF THE YEAR"(Sep-B-Series)
MASSACHUSETTS, COLORADO, AND RUSSIA-KAZAKSTAN (Sep-A-Series)
AUG - B - Series
"OUT OF ASIA" RETURN FROM INDIA (Aug-A-Series)
"HIMALAYAN HIGH III" : LADAKH AND THE TIBETAN PLATEAU (Jul-C-Series)
EVENTS OF INTERVAL WEEK BETWEEN CHAUTAUQUA AND LADAKH (Jul-B-Series)
Michigan Visit and Chautauqua Institution (Jul-A-Series)
TRIPS TO MICHIGAN, NEW YORK STATE AND THE CHAUTAUQUA INSTITUTION AS SPEAKER (Jun-C-Series)
FROM SALISBURY, MD DEER HUNTING TO WASHINGTON OFFICE, TO WYOMING RUNNING,TO COLORADO FISHING (Jun-B-Series)
DERWOOD TO STEAMBOAT SPRINGS, COLORADO (Jun-A-Series)
LEAVING RUSSIA FOR LONDON AND LILLE AT THE AAES/BAES MILLENNIUM MEETING OF ENDOCRINE SURGEONS (May-D-Series)
THE TOUR OF EUROPEAN RUSSIA (May-C-Series)
KAMCHATKA PENINSULA, SIBERIA: THE PURSUIT OF THE GREAT RUSSIAN BEAR (May-B-Series)
TRAVELS TO THE GREAT RUSSIAN BEAR (May-A-Series)
FROM EASTER WEEK THROUGH PIKE’S PEEK 10 K (April-C-Series)
BOSTON BOUND FROM PROVIDENCE TO SWAMPSCOT TO HOPKINTON WITH 26.2 MILES TO GO ON PATRIOT’S DAY (Apr-B-Series)
THE TOUR OF EUROPEAN RUSSIA SETTLING IN FROM DERWOOD’S ATTIC TO KITCHEN, AND RUN FROM GUIDE RUNNER IN WHEATON TO CHERRY BLOSSOM (Apr-A-Series)
FROM FDA HEARINGS TO EASTERN SHORE SHOOTING AND RUNNING MAR. 20—31, 2000 (Mar-B-Series)
MARCH ROARS IN LIKE A LION--IN WEST VIRGINIA AND RUNS ON IN MARYLAND (Mar-A-Series)
WINTER HANGOVER AS LATER PLANS CONTINUE AND SPRING TRIPS BEGIN (Feb-C-Series)
RE-HABBING THINKPAD, Bronco and Derwood (Feb-B-Series)
THE SNOWED-IN WRITER’S DEN IN DERWOOD (Feb-A-Series)
SNOWBOUND IN DC ON RETURN FROM AZ (Jan-E-Series)
ARIZONA TRIP IN RECORD HEAT, BOWHUNTING, LECTURING, BIRTHDAYING, AS NORTHEAST SUFFERS RECORD COLD (Jan-D-Series)
THE ARIZONA TRIP AND ITS ITINERARY AND PREPARATIONS FOR LATER 2000 TRAVELS (Jan-C-Series)
WASHINGTON RE-ENTRY AFTER STARTING THE MILLENNIUM ON SOUTHERN TRIP TO CAROLINAS, GEORGIA, FLORIDA, CUMBERLAND (Jan-B-Series)
INDEX TO THE START OF THE NEW MILLENNIUM (Jan-A-Series)

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