I'm done with my immunizations for my trip to Rwanda, and I can't help but feel a bit like a human pin cushion after only five shots. My nurse did the best she could when administering the shots, but she confessed that the needle was a bigger caliber than normal as I'm a bigger guy and supposedly it's necessary to get through my skin. Personally, I took it more as a reminder that I'm lucky not to regularly go through that type of crap and should be happy with just the occasional shot for t...

Had you asked me a week ago if I would ever go to Rwanda, I probably would've said no. It's not that I didn't have a desire to go, I'd actually like to go most everywhere, it's just about the means and purpose. The means would certainly come at some point, although I would've thought years and years down the road, so the big issue was the purpose. Why would I ever want to go to Rwanda, a tiny landlocked country in the middle of Africa that's most infamously known for the genocide of the 19...