Anyone In Their Right Minds Know That Animals Don't Use Toilets
We eat antibiotics like Tic-Tacs, we try not to curse the world, and Elliot gets new underwear.
Josh Snader
My name is Josh. My family and I live in Wewak, Papua New Guinea where I help maintain three elderly floatplanes. These posts are written from my perspective, the grumpy dad.
Village Hopping With A Floatplane In Papua New Guinea
We airdrop some electrical supplies to a bush missionary, then fly to Gavamas to pick up a missionary.
Our First Tropical Christmas
Sweating while caroling and other strange ways to spend Christmas.
Airplane In A Box
Even the most stoic mechanic will leap around and shout like a spirit-filled Pentecostal if the airplane goes down when it was supposed to go up.
Dying From Boredom Is Entirely Preventable
It's disheartening to have a patient heal from tuberculosis or some other horrible condition only to die from boredom a week later.
Common Cockroaches & Exotic Marsupials
It can be an unsettling transition to go from sipping coffee to having a marsupial in your hair without any time to get used to the idea.
Do Fish Even Sting People?
Because of the sun’s death rays we’ve been spending a lot of time at the ocean.
Ride Along On A Visit To The Haus Sik
After we fly patients in, we all take turns going and visiting them. Come with our family on a trip to the local "Haus Sik."
Death Warmed Over is Better Than Death Served Cold, But It's Still Worrisome.
Janice picks up some strange tropical disease and Adi gets stitches which causes me to muse about suffering and its effects.
I Know What's Wrong With My Faucet, But What's Wrong With My Feet?
I have a revelation about feet while walking to the hardware store to look for a new faucet.
Speaking Funny
Language learning is shifting from memorizing vocabulary to the next step: Embarrassing oneself.
So Far We've Been Spreading Diabetes More Effectively Than the Gospel.
But thank you for your patience with us. Good things take time!