Two weeks and counting...
In two weeks I will be embarking on my 13th mission trip. I will be returning to northern Uganda to work in the refugee camps. This is my fourth trip with Northwest Medical Teams International, a wonderful disaster response organization with an incredible track record. I fall in love with the people in every country that I have visited, but none more than the people of East Africa, and specifically northern Uganda.
The people are physically beautiful, stoic, enduring, and very appreciative. They live in some of the worst conditions that I have ever seen and yet still have the capacity to smile and laugh. I look forward to renewing friendships from last year.
In the next two weeks I have so much to prepare and wonder if I will get it all done. The main thing looming over me are TAXES! What a vile thing! Turbotax does help make it easier, but I still dread it, and as you can see by today's date, I put it off as long as I can.
It is beautiful outside today, and the trails are calling my name, I may have to put off paper work and taxes, just a while longer to get in some exercise in the sunshine, but the to do list for my trip is ever in my thoughts.