Outposts: Nuala McGovern’s Blog from Uganda

Uganda 2008

By Nuala McGovern

June 10, 2009

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Outposts: God’s Petri Dish

I’m the sort of traveler that books the ticket but doesn’t really think about the upcoming trip until I set foot on the foreign soil. I realized, fairly early on, that my usual game plan wasn’t going to work in Uganda.

I had to morph into a boy scout on steroids with my preparation or maybe more like a boy scout on vaccines. Before stepping foot in Uganda my vaccinations included:

Hepatitis A, Hepatitis B, Typhoid, Tetanus-Diptheria.
Yellow fever, you have to have the certificate to enter the country, here’s mine……

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