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This week was about stumbling, but not falling down. As usual, Jon calls from a tropical beach. He says that Nina was sick all this week, but really sick and they couldn't figure out what it was. She tried taking various drugs for whatever illness they thought it could be, and each one made her sicker. Finally, just as she had her stuff packed and was getting ready to board a little plane to take her back to civilization, they realized that it was the drugs that were making her ill - in particular the one to prevent against getting malaria. She stepped back off the plane, changed medicine, and paddled northward along the island chain with Jon.
Whew.
The winds that thwarted them earlier have died down and the sea is flat calm. The rain too has let up and the going should be easy for the next few days.
While I was waiting for her to get better, I wandered into the forest to watch the folks shelling coconuts to make copra for cosmetics for all of us.






Dated: 09/17/2007