A WEEK OF SCRAMBLING TO MERGE THE LONG
DISTANCE MISSIONS
ON SEVERAL CONTINENTS AND MULTIPLE PURPOSES A WORLD AWAY
June 22, 2001
It is taking me a week of detail work, and some of it is incomplete, but I will try to project forward for the next six months through a number of fixed points on my calendar, and see if the further fill-in can be carried out later. Don’t get exhausted reading it!
2001---Summer
7/17—8/1/’01 Medical mission to Lei, Ladakh and Tso Morari
See Itinerary appended or available on www.himalayanspirit.com
8/1—6/’01 Lingshed, Ladakh/Tibet—substitute clinic for the Flying Doctors
Contact Ravi Singh 404/ 929-9399
Return Lei—Delhi 8/6/01 thru FRA to IAD 8/7/01
8/17/01 IAD-thru connections to Anchorage, Alaska
8/19/’01 6:30 AM Magadan Air #802 ANC—PVK 8:15 AM 8/20/’01
Kamchatka Big Horn Snow Sheep and Brown Bear Hunt in Northern Kamchatka Siberia
Chartetered helicopter access to horseback mountain camps thru Eurasian Expeditions
Contact George Sevich 301/869-7160 See www.eurasianexpeditions.com
2001----Fall
9/11-12/’01 GRAMEC Visting Professor, Grand Rapids Michigan
Contact HealthQuest, Dr. Willard Stawksi
9/12—15/’01 Halsted Society Meeting, Boston Mass
Present Paper and attend sessions and events
9/15—10/1/’01 Spiti Valley, Himachal India via FRA, DEL, Simla
See itinerary, and www.himalayanspirit.com, contact Ravi Singh 404/929-9399
10/1/’01 Medical Mission to Lukla and Mount Everest Trek Route Nepal
See itinerary, and www.himalayanspirit.com, contact Ravi Singh 404/929-9399
10/7—8/01 Fly out of Namche Bazar, Nepal to Kathmandu
Connections thru ?DEL--FRA somehow to New Orleans
10/8—11/’01 Holiday Inn Convention Center Reservation #42 ACS 87th Clinical Congress
10/10/01 Present program, “Introducing Young Surgeons to overseas Service” in John Woods, chair of Panel: “Surgical Outreach Beyond Our Borders: Mission and Mercy”
(10/13—Will have to miss the Hartford CT Marathon for which I am registered), flying to
10/11 to Denver, CO and driving up to White River National Forst and Capital Peak
10/12—17/’01 Colorado Elk Season with Rob Van Pelt’s pack horses, fly back to DC
10/20/’01 Inaugural Running of the first Baltimore marathon—Guide Running with Joe Aukward
10.28/’01 The 26th Running of the Marine Corps Marathon, Washington DC
11/8—12/’01 Visit with Michael and Judy and the new TWIN grandsons!
11/11/’01 the 27th running of the “Marathon of the Americas”, San Antonio
11/18/’01 the second running of the Marathon in the Parks, Derwood, MD
11/20—21/’01 New York deer hunting season at Ithaca New York with Christian Elwell,
(arrange further details of January South African hunt with Ian, and November ’02
Alaskan panhandle hunt for mountain goats and moose with Zack and Christian)
11/ 22/’01 Thanksgiving Turkey Chase—Guide Run 10 K
11/23-24/’01 Craig Schaefer visits MD, Deer Hunting Eastern Shore MD
11/25 Drive to Pine Creek Canyon, PA
11/26-28/’01 Deer hunting season Pennsylvania
12/12/01 Send out year end review letter for Christmas from Derwood before family visits
2002
1/1/’02 Visit with Donald and Kathy, Andrew and Kacie in Gainesville, FL
1/4--9/’02 Cumberland Island NPS, Georgia
Nancy’s Fancy visit and Hog Hunt
1/ 11--?/’02 Goa, India –if it is going to go, or default option, directly to Southern Africa
1/12/’02 If Goa, connect thru Jo’burgh (see Hersmans and Mienys) to: either:
Maputo, Mozambique—visit with Ivo Paulo Garrrido and Tino Damasceno, or
Embangaweli, Malawi—work with George Poehlman,
Operate in Malawi, then proceed thru South Africa to make connections to Pacific
Accompanied by students, John P. Sutter, George Poehlman, MD, and ? Reg Franciose MD
1/-19/’02 South Africa birthday hunt with Ian and Christina Elwell’s colleagues from
Jacques Adventure Company—to be scheduled according to the MZ and Malawi openings
(1/22/’02 Medical Ethics Seminar, University of Virginia, Charlottsville
Prof. Jonathon Moreno---to be rescheudle if there is a conflict in the international travel)
2/1—2/’02 Circumnavigate the Southern hemisphere
South Atlantic, Jo’burgh, Indian Ocean to Pacific
2/2—16/’02 Mission to Mindanao, Philippines
see www.mmint.org , call Julie Borrenpohl
Tboli people in Edwards, operate one week
Climb Mount Apo, highest peak in Philippines
Operate one week in Bethel Mission Hospital, Malayabalay
3/13-17/’02 IHMEC Meeting in Havana, Cuba
IHMEC—see www.ihmec.org
3/24/’02 Inaugural Running of the DC marathon ID 127106-25
Guide Run with Joe in Inaugural Running
H2O Entertainment—see www.washingtondcmarathon.com
4/12--15/’02 Back Bay Hilton Hotel, Boston 617/236-1100
AMAA Meeting, in Back Bay Hilton 4/12-14/02
106th Running Boston Marathon
BAA---see www.baa.org