Telluride to Tibet

Hello all! Long time no see. I've been a bit out of the blogging world for the last while. It seems I pick it up again whenever I am headed out on a trip. Since my last adventures in Nicaragua (which ended with a wonderful week long visit by my mother), things have been awesome. I've been working at the Utah Department of Health as a research assistant on a interesting project--ask me if you want details because it is too much to explain here. I was also accepted to medical school at the University of Utah here in Salt Lake and will start this coming fall.

Today, my family just got back from the amazing Telluride Bluegrass and Country Festival. The music was absolutely incredible, and as the occasion was my mother's fiftieth birthday, there were plenty of late nights and way too much alcohol. If you've never been to this festival, I would highly recommend it. Incredible!

Anyhow, the event that brings on this new wave of blogging is a trip, beginning tomorrow, to Tibet. I'll be there for six weeks working on a maternal-fetal health research project. Beyond that the details are still murky to me as well! But it should involve interviewing nomadic Tibetans in the plains at 16,000 feet elevation. Wow, am I in for some altitude sickness!!! Thank god for Diamox . . .

I leave tomorrow night and will try to perdiocially post something while I am out on my adventures :-)