The Volcano Liveth!

After three years lying dormant, without so much as a hiss of steam, the volcano rumbles anew! We are on the move again--me already, and Rahul soon to join me! The scale will be much smaller this go-round—a month in Kenya and Uganda as compared to the whole of 2005 spent circumnavigating the globe—but we’ll take what we can get.

The past three years have been short on adventures overseas and long on adventures on-call (and not of the salacious Grey’s Anatomy variety, unfortunately), and we scarcely recognize the globetrotters that we once were. We blame the neglect we have shown our poor passports on Meg’s residency, as we do all other shortcomings of ours.

The residency years did witness one grand adventure in the life of Meghul . . . our Massive Ass Karaoke Wedding!!! Getting married completely rocked our worlds, leaving all of life’s previous highs in the dust, and shattering any notion we might have had as to how much fun one could possibly have at one time. Our honeymoon in Laos and Vietnam was definitely volcano-worthy, but spending it in internet cafes and not in our luxury hotel rooms was, we agreed, a terrible idea all around.

So, without further ado, we bring to you the resurrection—if brief—of the volcano. Hopefully it will never again lie dormant for years on end, for we will not have residency to blame for all of life’s woes much longer.

Stay tuned for stories of my medical work in HIV clinics in rural Kenya. Internet access here has proved challenging to say the least, and I spent most of my first week here trying—and mostly failing—to get British Airways to deliver my lost luggage. Now that I am finally settled in Migori and no longer wearing the same vile jeans, I'll try to start posting snippets whenever I can get online from clinic!

Off now to do some shopping close to the Tanzanian border!

-Meg