Monday
LOCATION: Near Padang, Indonesia
APPEARING: Steffi
As our suspected mosquito-transmitted fevers start to emerge, we at least made it to a small, quiet strip of beach, inaccessible via road, to hunker down through at least Christmas. With a thatched hut facing the ocean, a hammock, and a beach platform 10-ftt up in a tree, there was little to do but drink coffee, read, and let the virus and immune systems rage.