another travellin' song

2005-05-16T21:02:00.000-07:00

naguru teen center staff. i'm the tall white person in the back.

2005-05-16T20:53:00.000-07:00

the sister was really trying to do a good job. some of me and andrew kambugu--uganda's first infectious disease fellow and my preceptor in uganda.

2005-05-16T20:49:00.000-07:00

the open air wards of mulago hospital. most days the trash burning outside in the slums isn't too much of a problem.

2005-05-16T20:47:00.000-07:00

view from the sister's desk toward the women's ward at mulago hospital

2005-05-16T20:42:00.000-07:00

door to the operating room, mulago hospital.

2005-05-16T20:38:00.000-07:00

for all your echocardiographic and ob-gyn needs, simply go round the corner by the "meal-in" and down the alley. please?

2005-05-16T20:36:00.000-07:00

i also feel like chicken tonight. the delicious cuisine of the wandegeya neighborhood.

2005-05-16T20:33:00.000-07:00

in god we trust indeed.

2005-05-16T20:32:00.000-07:00

the farewell luncheon at naguru, edith and staff. taken right before i swallowed the piece of goat meat that nearly bought me an admission to mulago hospital.

2005-05-16T20:30:00.000-07:00

"there's something funny about this radio jeremy." the replacement of the broken "pansonic" transistor.

2005-05-16T20:28:00.000-07:00

departing kampala. soccer field, slums and the mulago hospital complex (blue roofs).

2005-05-16T20:26:00.000-07:00

on the road from kampala to entebbe. unfortunately, zebra crossing means the white and black stripes on the road where pedestrians cross and not, as i had exclaimed on day one, that "there are f$#king zebras in the city! i love this country!"

2005-05-16T20:24:00.000-07:00

the elusive spoonbill. no kidding.

2005-05-16T20:22:00.000-07:00

a view of lake victoria from the wildlife sanctuary in entebbe...last day in uganda.

2005-04-30T14:55:00.000-07:00

leaving barrow, one way or another.

2005-04-30T14:54:00.000-07:00

the team returning with part of the whale--sonny, ron and myself. nearly the entire village will receive a portion of this whale. we felt lucky to receive what we did.

2005-04-30T14:51:00.000-07:00

view from the back of the sled towing our load of whale meat and blubber back in...

2005-04-30T14:49:00.000-07:00

this is the head of the whale--it will be thrown back into the ocean with the belief that another whale will return to that spot next year. another whaling crew in the water in the background.

2005-04-30T14:47:00.000-07:00

the leftovers after butchering the whale...the crew is in the back, the blood in the front. the ribcage is off to the left, near the wooden sled.

2005-04-30T14:46:00.000-07:00

whale guts--about 5x5 feet in dimensions.

2005-04-30T14:45:00.000-07:00

while we were out on the ice another crew landed a whale--which you can see spouting from its blowhole here...they fired about 8 shoulder gun rounds into it before finally bringing it ashore.

2005-04-30T14:43:00.000-07:00

flipper and baleen. for our "help" we received a portion of the flipper (skin and blubber). eaten raw it is called "muktuk". um, chewy.

2005-04-30T14:39:00.000-07:00

this is the camp where the whale was pulled onto the ice. it's about 3.5 miles out on the icepack. the whale was a short, fat bowhead.

2005-04-30T14:36:00.000-07:00

towing mishap on the way out...

2005-04-30T14:35:00.000-07:00

about 2 miles out on the icepack over the arctic ocean. still about a mile from open water.

2005-04-30T14:34:00.000-07:00

heading out onto the ice to help out a whaling crew...sonny on sled, ron driving.

2005-04-30T14:33:00.000-07:00

joe's museum: opens at about 11pm when joe gets off work at pepe's mexican restaurant. full of stuff he found on the beach and that the smithsonian, apparently, covets. i held a 600 year old caribou antler and stone hammer here.

2005-04-30T14:30:00.000-07:00

waiting for the bus, or something, in barrow.

2005-04-30T14:28:00.000-07:00

the big white: tundra, radio tower south of barrow. tiny black dots are caribou.

2005-04-30T14:26:00.000-07:00

one of the skin boats used for whale hunting. excellent examples of barrow architecture in back.

2005-04-30T14:25:00.001-07:00

the beach in barrow. balmy.

2005-04-30T14:25:00.000-07:00

bowhead skull

2005-04-30T14:24:00.000-07:00

welcome to barrow, AK: northernmost outpost in north america. arctic ocean is behind us.

2005-04-30T14:19:00.000-07:00

sonny on the beach in barrow. about midnight.

2005-04-30T14:18:00.000-07:00

barrow, AK: the barrow forest and summer cabins

2005-04-30T14:16:00.000-07:00

skiing on the kenai peninsula

2005-04-30T14:15:00.000-07:00

land of the midnight sonny: on the sled returning from whaling

2005-04-29T19:59:00.000-07:00

hyalite canyon, montana: seen of horrible one armed accident