In this blog, I will attempt to document my travels around the world. There will be an attempt to go back more than 4 years and start from the beginning of the most exciting experience of my life. That of a medical courier. This job trumps anything I did in the corporate world and my 32 year career in a large multi-national company.
Among a lot of things I have done in my life, nothing has been as rewarding as being a volunteer courier for the National Marrow Donor Program, headquartered in Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA. NMDP is the international registry of willing live donors of bone marrow and peripheral blood stem cells for human transplant. Helping others in desperate need for a better healthy life, and being part of a large team of professionals each dedicated to helping a extraordinarily seriously ill person somewhere in the world creates the adrenaline rush necessary to accomplish the job.
This job requires me to travel light, discretely and confidentially. My bag is always packed, my passport ready along with my transplant cooler to rush off to some large medical hospital to pick up a life-saving blood product donation then rush to the airport to deliver to a transplant center somewhere in the world to help a needy person.
Because of confidentiality requirements, I will not be able to disclose all the details of these travels, but will attempt to write a bit about some of the interesting places I've had the opportunity to travel to. All of the trips originate in Minneapolis, MN, then to a donor hospital , then on to a transplant hospital. Each international trip requires about 5 days, 2 nights in airplanes, and 3 nights on the ground. Often an extension stay in the foreign location is available, at my expense of course, and is where I find a host of interesting things to see and do. I have taken well over ten thousand pictures and need to edit them down as well as reduce my diary of each trip to this blog.
There are already two posts for the last two trips taken. One to Prague the other to Tel Aviv, Israel. The rest of the posts will start from the beginning, if I do one a week it will take nearly 7 months to post them all. Stop back often and read what I hope will be a interesting travel dialog with words creating a mental picture of excitement, history, and neat places around the world. Your comments and questions are also welcome.
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