Here is a map of the context of Timor, with the Philippine's just north and the Land of Oz just south of this tropical island just 8 degrees south of the equator.

Leaving for Timor in a few days. Just asked Casey to pick up a freestanding mosquito tent. Looking forward to NOT getting another tropical illness this trip. Here is the destination. We will start in Dili. Well actually, we start in Bali, Sean and Sierra are going to meet us there and spend a couple of nights there on the way to Timor! It will be fun, they will be celebrating Sean's birthday and we will be celebrating getting to see both of them. Casey is ready to go after a few weeks working in Haiti earlier this month, Timor will seem like an easy place I am sure. We are both excited to get on the road. I have an almost infinite amount of work to do be fore we leave on Thursday. Two more days at Nooksack and one long Wed in San Juan to get a months worth of work done. We are opening a new clinic that the Nooksack Tribe will own in Deming but will serve all the people in the region starting in January so a great deal of planning going on there. An on San Juan there is Pertussis outbreak and a Norovirus outbreak right now (in both a summer camp and a childcare center). So race to the finish line for now. Just got off the phone this morning with Ed Kelly about Jhamtse Gatsal School in India and the likelihood of getting a dentist to go there to use the dental equipment that I helped to install in the spring and it is looking more likely now.

Frank