Mamba Point Briefings
Thursday passed in a cocoon. Got picked up by the bus at 8:20, shuttled to Mamba Point Hotel for briefings. And more briefings. Security briefings. Procedural briefings. Legal briefings. I […]
Category Archives: roadtrip
More reflections from Monrovia
[Doing much better today, but haven’t had a chance to write. Including, instead, some notes from last night.] Security briefing packet we’re handed on the bus into town is sobering […]
Monrovia vs. the comfort zone
Okay, I'll admit it. I'm so far out of my comfort zone I'm wondering if I left it in the overhead luggage compartment back at Roberts Airfield. It's been an […]
Like clockwork
Yup – I guess that's one of the gifts of age: having a better grip on the owner's manual of that mysterious device called "your body". Curled up as best […]
An uneasy start
This has been a strangely uneasy start. Usually there's a certain poetry to departures, something evoke the oft-misattributed quotation about how, once you have committed, the world lays a path […]
Hello? Hello? Is this thing on?
Zach pointed out that I’ve gotten in the habit of only posting somewhat monolithic little narratives – complete thoughts – to the blog. Probably not going to have the chance […]
Liberia, a first pass
So…. Liberia. Yeah, the reactions I’m getting are pretty bipolar. They’re either “That’s so freakin’ amazing – how on earth did you get picked for something like that?!?” or “Why […]
Messing about in boats
Everyone knows the quotation, right? “There is nothing – absolutely nothing – half so much worth doing as simply messing about in boats.” Yes, yes, Kenneth Graham, Wind in the […]
Here comes the sun
photo by Christy Schultz Okay, now for something a little less heavy. Sun is just now coming up. I like this time of year, when I’m typically up just a […]
Not at Reno
It’s when you don’t want to write, that you should really be writing. Like right now. I don’t want to write because I don’t know how to tell this story, […]
David Pablo Cohn 