Year In Review: 2014

[emo_snal]

Wait what? Yes the subject of this entry is 2014. Yes the current year is 2019. It's been bothering my OCD that I never did a review of 2014   So this will be a bit different from the usual review of a year just-past since I have the benefit of hindsight but moreover I barely remember what I did that year so I'm going to have to trawl through my

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[wpadmirer]

Other than being sick, it wounds like a wonderful year!

[emo_snal]

It was certainly eventful! I had to resist the urge to tell some of the good stories of the year in this entry or this entry would have been hugely long. (:

[daphnep]

I am so intrigued by your travel stories, you are a real adventurer!! May I ask an impertinent question? You will simply not answer if you choose, I know it’s. none of my business. But this is an intensive itinerary by any measure, and you say this was less than than the years prior and following, so I wonder: how are you funded? This type of travel is expensive, and I know beekeepers, they don’t make much money from their craft. I wonder, in this age, how one creates this life of constant global travel.

My needs to pay my bills keeps me down, but maybe I’m missing out on a vital step!!!

[emo_snal]

The trip to Guinea and costs while there were covered by USAID, though the side trip to Sweden wasn't. The biggest single expense other than that was the round trip ticket LAX- Nairobi which was around $1200, the other flights between cities in the East Africa area wouldn't have been terribly much. Once in Africa the cost of life is absolutely negligible so once you've bought tickets there you're practically saving money over what you'd be spending in a developed country. Of course loss of income from not working was probably the biggest "expense" and rent would have been up since I was going to be gone for a big chunk of several months and had only recently returned from Australia so wasn't deeply entrenched in an apartment I was staying with my parents for the times between those trips that I was in the states, so I wasn't paying rent on an apartment. And I was lucky to have a job that let me come and go. But like if you compare it to 2017, in 2017 I was balancing a serious job and rent on my house and still managed to travel

[belleweather]

I think this was about when we started being friends. I remember the ship pictures!

[emo_snal]

Hooray! (: I'm pretty sure nothing really happened before 2014 anyway ;)

[pondhopper]

Very interesting recap and I remember the ships also!
But if it wasn't ebola (thank the gods!) did they ever determine what you did have?

[furzicle]

Serious sinus infection.

[pondhopper]

Thank you! MUCH better than ebola.

[emo_snal]

Indeed!!

[lookfar]

JAYsus, that man overboard story had me glued to LJ! And well told, too. Did you ever hear about that mom and son again? And the story of Neema, that too, is touching and touchingly told.

What an interesting life you have! I'm so glad I get to follow it on LJ.

[emo_snal]

Thanks!

Never heard from the mom and son again.

And of course Neema turned out to be alive after all (:

[lookfar]

What, she did? Dude, I thought she had passed. You should update your entries so they're not so sad.

[emo_snal]

Yeah I'll go add a link to the entry :X

this was her return.