Notes from the end of the Road

It never ceases to amaze me how beautiful the desert can be.  It's sort of like going to Terlingua.  You either love it or hate it.  I'm helping out some folks in one of the most remote places on the North American continent at the moment.  And yes,  I have some internet.  It's about 420,000 acres of protected biosphere named, "EL Carmen Land and Conservation Company".  It straddles the U.S and Mexican border with about 400,000 of those acres on the Mexican side.  10,000 foot mountains, forests, rivers, lakes, and the best part?  Not a cow to be seen.  All the land has been returned to it's natural state.  If you have ever been out to the Big Bend you would not be able to recognize it.  It's full of bear, elk, bighorn sheep, pronghorn, and mountain lion.   Just hard to imagine what the city is like anymore.   Those of you that are willing should come on out.  You won't regret it.

A New Time Coming

It's official.   I'm gong to have a new home for a few months.  Say hello to Chogori Hospital in Eastern Kenya.   It's at the foot of Mt. Kenya and serves a zillion square miles of bush.   It's the only healthcare facility within a couple of hundred miles.  I'm going to be working to help them put together and EMS system and staff their mobile rural healthcare unit.  My other job for the time I'm there is to teach anti poaching game ranger units Tactical Combat Care in the bush.  These guys are fighting to save the last of the wild elephants and lions in Africa.  And the facts are that they are doing extremely dangerous work and dying in the process.  Time to do my part.  I'm putting to gather a small Non-profit before I leave to help supply them with what they need.  I am funding the first round of this myself but please spread the world. I'm going to need some help.  We need to have some of this amazing wildlife left for the generations that come after us.   So, if your plans include East Africa in the Spring you will have someone you know.  More on things later.