The preparations for any GAHP trip are enormous.  Every team member plays a role in getting ready, whether organizing 1st Aid supplies, carrying supplies in bags that weigh more than the person, coordinating sites, seminars, equipment, you name it, we do it.  This trip was no different: we worked until the final hour getting ready.  Who’s great idea was it to schedule one of our training seminars the weekend before we left?  Ours, no doubt!  We had a great seminar, and somehow Dan and I managed both to attend the classes and pack feverishly so we could give 50 lb bags to team members traveling directly to Nepal.  All of us at one point or another said how much we were looking forward to the 24+ hour plane trip… just so we could rest!

Daniel Altschuler teaching about infectious disease

Ziplocs make an ideal herb storage

Dan keeps smiling–the 24th hour…