just got off phone with Travel Advice nurse. traveling sounds scary coming from her.

[JackstrawIII]

I just got back from Sao Paulo, Brazil. It was a great trip... no rabies, malaria, covid, etc. 

 

I hope you choose to take the trip, and enjoy it! 

[Susky River Rat]

You guys are works travelers and I am worried about going out to Indy in a couple weeks! I have never flown. I am not worried about the flying part. It’s the logistical parts connecting flights etc. it’s for work so I didn’t have much say on things with my itinerary. 

[Captain Phil]

My wife and I have traveled abroad extensively.  Most of our travels have been on fishing trips, occasionally to some very remote places.  We have had a few medical scares.  Once in Venezuela, a person in our party was stabbed in the street.  They took him to the local hospital, which was worse than being stabbed.  Luckily there was an American doctor in our party who brought him to his hotel room and sewed him up.  I fished in Guatemala in the late nineties.   Rebels blew up the bridge the night before we were leaving and we had to ride over the mountains in the dark.  We spent some time fishing the Great Barrier Reef in Australia.  Australia is a huge country with very few people.  We had a wonderful time.  After that, we fished Papua New Guinea for a month.  This place is the antithesis of the modern world.  If you can imagine fishing in a King Kong movie, you got it about right.   The inoculations we received before going was like what you get in the military.  Even with all those drugs, my wife got malaria when she returned home.  This was a very serious situation that the local doctors had no idea how to treat.  They sent her to a military doctor who had experience with this disease.  That was twenty five years ago and she made it through.  Since COVID, we both stopped flying.  It seemed every time we did, someone got sick.  If we can't drive there, we don't go.

[Darth-Baiter]

16 hours ago, JackstrawIII said:

I just got back from Sao Paulo, Brazil. It was a great trip... no rabies, malaria, covid, etc. 

 

I hope you choose to take the trip, and enjoy it! 

I’m buying new stylish fishing shirts so my photos look good.  I’m all in.  I don’t frighten easily.  That’s partially because I take precautions. 
 

i’n not even checking in luggage.  Going light on clothing, heavy on anticipation.

[JackstrawIII]

2 hours ago, Darth-Baiter said:

stylish fishing shirts

My wife would argue that this is an oxymoron… but I’m happy for you haha. I’m sure you be feeling and looking good ??

[Darth-Baiter]

Hah.    True. It’s probably me making the shirt look good.