Travel blog

[Wyliee]

I'm usually pretty cautious about revealing much personal or family information on forums.  (Hey, I have a life outside Warmoth...!)

Making an exception here as I'm really proud of my wife and the work she does.  She works for Worldvision in GIK (Gifts in Kind) and works with major corporate donors.  (NFL, WalMart, Tom's Shoes, major drug companies, etc...)  Her area of specialty is international logistics.  She travels several times a year to remote facilities to help them be as efficient as possible and make sure everything that is sent out is used.

I've convinced her that a blog is a great thing to do when she travels.  Other people could benefit from her experiences.  Here's her blog: http://thedryereatsmysocks.blogspot.com/  She's currently in DRC (Congo) and was in Zambia, Mongolia and Australia earlier this year.  She's an amazing woman and I'm incredibly lucky to be married to her!

BTW, whenever she travels, she always tries to bring me back a football (soccer in the US) jersey of the local team and a CD from the local music scene.  I've got quite the closet of jerseys and CDs!!  :rock-on:

 

[Nando Vallart]

Very nice!

Sounds like she is a incredible woman, congrats!

 

[DangerousR6]

I'm usually pretty cautious about revealing much personal or family information on forums.  (Hey, I have a life outside Warmoth...!)

Making an exception here as I'm really proud of my wife and the work she does.  She works for Worldvision in GIK (Gifts in Kind) and works with major corporate donors.  (NFL, WalMart, Tom's Shoes, major drug companies, etc...)  Her area of specialty is international logistics.  She travels several times a year to remote facilities to help them be as efficient as possible and make sure everything that is sent out is used.

I've convinced her that a blog is a great thing to do when she travels.  Other people could benefit from her experiences.  Here's her blog: http://thedryereatsmysocks.blogspot.com/  She's currently in DRC (Congo) and was in Zambia, Mongolia and Australia earlier this year.  She's an amazing woman and I'm incredibly lucky to be married to her!

BTW, whenever she travels, she always tries to bring me back a football (soccer in the US) jersey of the local team and a CD from the local music scene.  I've got quite the closet of jerseys and CDs!!   :rock-on:

My hats off to you wife Wyliee, it's a very noble thing to help people in other countries, but I feel that's what's wrong with this country. To many bleeding hearts worried about the affairs of other nations, when we've got to many problems and people in need in this country.....Just my .02...

 

[-CB-]

Very nice!

Sounds like she is a incredible woman, congrats!

At least the kids will have a chance to grow up good lookin'!  :laughing7:

Seriously, well done!  (except dryers technically don't eat socks, they convert them to fuel for heat by way of nuclear fission, while the plug in the wall just powers the motor that spins the drum).

 

[Cagey]

...it's a very noble thing to help people in other countries, but I feel that's what's wrong with this country. To many bleeding hearts worried about the affairs of other nations, when we've got to many problems and people in need in this country.....Just my .02...

It's not so much that we can't afford to dilute the help we give ourselves at home, we have an embarrassment of riches, but in some cases the help we give other countries is often a large part of those other country's problems. In some cases, particularly when it's financial aid, that money simply ends up in the pockets of the despots who control those countries, who use it to build armies to control larger areas so they can get even more money. In other cases, where it's food/drugs/technology we give them, it causes the population to grow artificially and the death toll goes up because they can't support themselves.

Nature will balance itself, given a chance. Overfeed or overprotect a species (including humans), and it'll grow out of control. Then you end up with an artificially large population that can't sustain itself, and in the case of humans, you get the feeling you can't stop supporting it. It's a snake eating its tail. Last numbers I saw said South Africa was losing ~30,000 babies a day to disease, pestilence, and starvation. If we would stop feeding/protecting them, that number would drop down to a small fraction of that amount. But, as long as we continue feeding/protecting them, it'll keep increasing. In other words, it's our fault so many babies are dying there. Leave 'em alone, and it'll balance out naturally to where the food/water/shelter supply is equal to the demand.

I know it sounds cold-hearted, but it's not. It's actually the compassionate thing to do. All those babies we're killing suffer greatly before they die, and the few who survive long enough to reproduce because of our interference don't have particularly good lives, either.

 

[AprioriMark]

If we have no problem taking from other nations, why take issue with giving back?

-Mark

 

[Wyliee]

Hey guys, hang on a sec OK?

I didn't start this thread to discuss the politics of aid.  This was to share my wife's travel blog.  She goes to some amazing places and sees some amazing things.  I'm darned proud of her and just wanted to share her blog.  Really....  that's all....  K???

 

[mayfly]

So - where are the photos of Wyliee's good looking wife?  All I saw was a bunch of text.... :icon_jokercolor:

 

[DangerousR6]

Hey guys, hang on a sec OK?

I didn't start this thread to discuss the politics of aid.  This was to share my wife's travel blog.  She goes to some amazing places and sees some amazing things.  I'm darned proud of her and just wanted to share her blog.  Really....  that's all....  K???

Good point, my bad.... :icon_thumright:

 

[OzziePete]

What work did your wife do in Australia, and where did she go?

Congrats to your wife for putting her hand up to do this work. Even if there's pay, it's not the sort of job many of us would contemplate.