Happy 11th anniversary of my LiveJournal! Glad I still remembered the password so I could make this update, my 1,001st and first since last May 18. There are a handful of things to add since my last post: we finished 2010 with a total of ten trips to Disneyland; we accomplished our goal of running a half marathon every month for a year (I have ( Read more... )

So, this is my 10th anniversary of my first and really only blog. This is also my 1,000th entry but first since posting last May 18. It's crazy to think of how many things have changed or that I've done in the past ten years:

• I've moved from Seattle to Philadelphia to Boston and now to Sacramento. I wonder where I'll end up over the next ten ( Read more... )

So, today marks the 9th anniversary of my Livejournal! Here's my annual stats post (see posts for 2008, 2007, 2006, 2005, 2004, 2003, 2002, or 2001, if you desire ( Read more... )

Wednesday 11 FebWoke up around 7:30, had breakfast and left with Julia and Vladamir at 9am for Belen, one of the poor parts of Iquitos and built on the river. In the past, all of the homes were built on floating logs that would rise and fall with the water level, and while some of these homes still exist, most now have structures built into the ( Read more... )

Saturday 07 FebWhile I somewhat expected today to be a long and boring day as we would again spend a full day in the same village, it turned out to be my favorite on my trip to the Amazon. We arrived in San Francisco (population 600) just before breakfast and after eating took a stroll. Everybody here was especially friendly. One girl acted as ( Read more... )

Tuesday 03 FebWoke up at 6am in time to wave goodbye to Oran as we ventured on to Colonia (population 230) about 20 minutes down river. Took a stroll through the village after breakfast, tried some new fruits and my first intentional termite ingestion. Acidic! Another busy morning (14 patients including 15 fillings and 8 extractions; even had to ( Read more... )

Friday 30 Jan
BOS-JFK-MIA-LIM. Long day, crazy long layover in a disgusting Miami airport. Hard to sleep on the overnight flight.

Saturday 31 JanArrived in Lima at 5:10am; went straight to my hotel in Miraflores (the nice area of Lima) and slept until 11am; showered and walked around Miraflores including a walk to the Lacomar shopping mall and ( Read more... )

On Monday, I got back from a 23 day trip to Peru. While there, I wrote a journal of my daily happenings which I will transfer to the computer so I can remember my experiences ( Read more... )

Had a blast at the Disney World Marathon yesterday. We had a great time running through all the parks and even had time to take some pictures along the way and really enjoy the experience (as a bonus, we didn't even do too poorly time-wise--better than our goal ( Read more... )

This week's stats:

Ran: 24.20 miles
Supposed to run: 18 miles

Total run since start of training: 340.44 miles
Weeks to go until the marathon: 1

We're flying down to Orlando on Friday, doing a "highlights" day at the four parks on Saturday and then running a short 26.2 miles Sunday!