Day negative one: Whats so bad about yellow fever anyway?

Welcome to my chronicles of the Amazon! If you're trolling the net looking for shrimp on a treadmill, stick around, you might learn something. If you're looking for Bear Grylls blog, second door down on the left. For those of you who know something about my prospective trip, press fast forward for about 2 seconds or play along for kicks. For the cyberplebs out there, a moviereel synopsis...
This Fall
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One Man
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One Semester
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is
In the amazon.

Hopefully I'll be able to inform and entertain- hell I might even write a poem or two (don't cross your fingers).
Last day stateside, tomorrow is the 18 or so hours in a plane, so not much to mention so far. Just must say that preparation has been a rocky path, and my heart goes out to everyone who helped me get here; the millions of pages of paper (couldn't it all be on the internet??), the enlightened warehouse supervisors (no doubt in their final stages of the cosmic wheel), the fax machines and their attendants (yes, I made crazy requests... no, I dont think that 3.50 is reasonable for 1 fax), and more seriously, my family and friends that made this possible. My heart goes out to all of you who helped me make this happen. Seriously, you guys all rock. You know who you are. ;-)

ps. I have enough immunizations and vaccines in me to preserve a tapir. http://www.animalpicturesarchive.com/ArchOLD-7/1194311861.jpg
my pincushion arm can hardly support it's own weight. Whiteboy out.

stay true, walk straight
-F