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This week has been

This week has been busy. It started off with a trip over to Chimborazo with Dustin and parts of two other families. We drove to over 15,000 feet, and then hiked a kilometer to about 16,400 feet. Dustin had altitude sickness and didn't do any hiking. He was cold and nauseous and just plain miserable. I've been over there twice now. I think if I go back, it will be to climb to the summit, which is over 20,000 feet.

I came home to find our internet connection was down and the server at the hanger wasn't sending/receiving e-mail. Our ISP had disconnected us, but by Tuesday morning we were running again. Things were working well enough that by 3:30 PM I was flying up to Quito with Sandy. He had an emergency flight with two patients, and there was room for me to go also. I went up just for the night so I could do some work on computers at the Quito office. Sandy spent the night and we flew down together today. We had to climb to 15,000' and use instruments to get through the weather. I sat in the back and played chess on my Palm while Sandy sat up front and sipped on oxygen. I brought a Dominos pizza back with me and was home in time to share that with the family for lunch.