How, how did that all happen?

Well, after a year at this fancy New England prep school, I wanted to get as far away from there as I possibly could.

Uh, my social activities were the subject of faculty meetings at great length, and, uh, and I, I really felt that going on for the second year of that fellowship would close more doors for me at the tender age of, uh, uh, of 21 than they would open, and I wasn't ready to start closing doors.

So I, uh, packed up, uh, and, and signed on to a, uh, Commonwealth, British Commonwealth, uh, slash AID project in, in Uganda.

Well, I met a Brit at a pub in Kampala the first week I was there, and we chatted at length and, uh, he invited me to join him in a fishing trip up to Lake Albert on the border between Uganda and the Congo.

Uh, and uh, I had the best day of fishing there that I'd ever had in my life.

Uh, the month after I went there for the first time, along came a monsoon and washed out the railroad tracks.

Uh-huh.