An ambulance almost hit me today. It’s really too bad it didn’t, it could have been terribly ironic.

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I had the opportunity to scratch a biggie off my bucket list, visiting a National Park in Africa! Ever since I was a little boy, and as early as I can remember, I would love plopping my pudgy self in front of the T.V. whenever a wildlife special was on. I also don’t think I ever missed a night thumbing through a ZooBook magazine. This continued until the day I left for Ethiopia except for the ZooBooks and the plopping. I stopped plopping some years back.

I, along with the rest of the environment sector, visited Awash National Park which is about ~120 km east of…