Sunday September 4

     Another trip to Liberia begins !! Dr. Daniel Ricaurte and I left from JFK(NY) last evening, and arrived in Monrovia that s evening after passing through Brussels. The team for this adventure includes Daniel, a PGY-2 in our program, Dr. Deirdre Wyrack, a Chief Resident at the University of Arkansas, and Dr Jonathan Laryea. Deirdre met up with Daniel and myself in Brussels, and Jonathan will join us tomorrow when he arrives after a brief visit to Accra, Ghana.
      There were no issues on our trip here, other than a momentary hesitation when we checked in at JFK(NY) and the desk people at Brussels Airlines found it difficult to believe that we had been allotted 2 extra bags each, giving us a total of 8 bags, 7 of which were stuffed with medical supplies weighing just under  50 pounds each.
      We were brought to the apartments they have rented for us which a spacious and quite pleasant. I'll need to get my bearings in daylight to figure out exactly where we are, but it is relatively close to the hospital and behind the Royal Hotel on the other side of Tubman Boulevard.
      Dr. McDonald and Munah were waiting for us at the apartment, and had dinner for us also. We had a pleasant conversation, and then to bed early for our first day tomorrow.