MAR-B-3
PROJECTION OF INTERMEDIATE
PLANS AND ITINERARIES AS I
LEAVE ON THE TAHOE/TAIWAN
FAR EAST TRIP
Subject: Departure on Tahoe/Taiwan Treks
with projection of near term plans
Derwood is left now to its
finishing touches which you may see about the same time that I do, since I am
gone now for the next three weeks in the Far East, returning for only three
days, and then going for two weeks to float the entire length of the Amazon.
The itineraries for the next
two major destinations include Tahoe:
P‑ 4LZM28
1.1GEELHOED/GLENN.MR*SNN
1 NW 227H 19MAR FR DCADTW HK1 1235P 204P/O J01 E
2 NW 327H 19MAR FR DTWLAX HK1 337P
532P/X J01 E
3 AS 677L 19MAR FR LAXRNO HK1 804P
926P/O $ E
4 AS 256K 24MAR FR RNOLAX HK1 830A
952A/O $ E
I will be giving lectures at
a Surgical Meeting convened by my friend Alden Harken now from his base in
University of California East Bay; it will be held in Squaw Valley, but I will
not be packing much in the way of ski clothes, since I go on from there to a
sub‑tropical environment.
The next component of the
trip is to Nanhua University in Taiwan, as follows:
5 NW
1H 24MAR FR LAXNRT HK1 1110A 410P#1/O J02 E
6 NW
21H 25MAR SA NRTTPE HK1 700P
1010P/X J02 E
7 NW
70H 10APR SA TPEDTW HK1 855A
1215P/O J03 E
8 NW 230H 10APR SA DTWDCA HK1 152P
315P/X J03 E
I will return on April 10th,
meet with Bill Webster on the 11th with the remaining four trophies to be
collected from two Eastern Shore taxidermists (minus the "Phantom of the
Derwood Deer Woods" still being hostaged by North American Taxidermy), and
then on the 12th, all of the Game Room will be filled on the walls, as the
floor furniture will already have been delivered next week on the 22nd and 23rd
of March, as Interior Designer Sandy Shelar will be supervising furniture
placement as well as the window treatments.
I meet with Keith Carr on
the 13th of April and present to the GWU classes the senior medical students'
international medical experience on the 14th.
All the seniors who have accompanied me are now matched, effective noon
today..The following morning, I leave for Peru and the Amazon.
>
> 1GEELHOED/GLENN*4610
> AA 723 15APR DCAMIA 1259P
330P
> AA 917 15APR MIA/LIMA 445P
920P
I float the entire length of the Amazon,
stopping frequently, aboard the new 106‑guest Orion, giving several
lectures enroute while doing the naturalists' tour. This is a boat trip throughout the length of
the Amazon from Iquitos Peru to the Atlantic mouth at Belem Brazil. The great cruise (the only one that covers
the whole river) is April 15 through May 2 and will have naturalists, frequent
riverside stops and a "think tank" of on board lecturers, one of whom
you know. It is a non‑strenuous
and relaxing form of "adventure travel"‑‑a maiden voyage
aboard the new 106‑passenger "Orion"‑‑ through an
exotic environment run by Travel Dynamics International at 212/517‑7555
(toll free 800/257‑5767) or check the web at www.TravelDynamicsInternational.co
I leave from Brazil to return
home to Derwood, this time trying to move in for real in a hurry to entertain
some guests from family I will be going to join soon:
> VARIG 2267 01MAY BEL/SAO PAULO 400P
845P
> RG8864 01MAY SAO PAULO/JFK 1159P 630A
>
> AA4772 02MAY JFK/DCA
1055A 1159A
>
After scrambling about to
see if things are where they ought to be, and that they may even function in
the all‑new house, I will take off to GRR Michigan on the 6th of May,
arriving to visit with family. If I am
able to creak along at all, I will try to run the Grand River Bank Run 25 K on
Saturday May 8, recover on Sunday and
then with Milly and Shirl drive down to Derwood from Michigan so that they can
be the first family visitors to see the new house and be the inaugural guests‑‑possibly
to prove that I have not yet ironed out all the kinks.
In the following week, I
will leave on May 11 to visit Bill and Kathy Magee in Norfolk Virginia during
their PTP ("Physician Training Program") to set up a n Operation
Smile mission to the Horn of Africa. I
will be there for several days, but will drive back up to Derwood and DC for
the May 16 GWUMC Medical School Graduation for the "Hooding Ceremony"
in which I will be processing with the faculty and then "hooding" my
senior student proteges, now graduate MD's.
For the last weeks of May
and the first of June, I had definitely canceled the South African trip to lead
students of the NYLF, and have put on hold two other conferences, one at Penn
State University and the other a return to Taiwan and possibly
Singapore/Thailand. I may be hosting
another visit in that time period, but then the first of the ELDP
("Executive Leadership Doctoral Program") graduate school weeks in
the middle of each subsequent month takes place in Ashburn Virginia to begin
yet another ("terminal?") degree program. This means that I will not be returning to
the Himalayas this summer as I had for each of the last several years.
I hope that the skeleton of
the coming itineraries is a useful one for my intermediate term plans, and the
completion of the base from which I will be trying to run it from.
At present, the March that
came in like a lamb, is giving its one big last Lion impression, and I will
have to look beyond this to wish you a "Happy Springtime!"
Cheers!
GWG