Geography is fundamental
(Also from Mac-istan IT.)
Here's a map of Azerbaijan. Baku is that thing that's circled all the way to the east.
McCarthys--right click on the map, and select "Open Link in New Window." Then put the cursor arrow over the map and look for a little orange picture box with blue arrows. Click on that and it will let you zoom in so you can read the map.
So, you can see Baku on this, obviously. I've got to take some photos here of the city, because its so cool. There are really old beautiful building from before Soviet times. And there is the "old city" with most of its original city walls, with crazy tiny windy streets and alleys. The rest of Baku has only been here since about 1880.
Go west from Baku and you will see Yevlakh, where we are doing part of the Emergency Medicine Development program. For some reason, Gange isn't on here, although I think its bigger than Yevlakh. You can see Yevlakh is right on the oil pipeline, as most of our programs are, since we get a lot of money from the corporate social responsibility depts of the oil companys here. The train tracks give you an idea of where the pipeline is. There's a picture I took of an oil train on the pipeline going west to the Black Sea in Georgia below.
On the map you can also see Sheki, where I'm going tomorrow am. Its near Russia, north of Yevlakh. Then on Wednesday and Thursday I'll be in areas in the southwest: Lachin and Agdzhabedi. Lachin is where we have a Dept. of State program with the internally displaced persons from the Azerbaijan/Armenia wars over the land thats near Lachin, but part of Armenia on this map. Its right at the border. And Agdzhabedi is north of the border with Iran. We've had some community investment and health programs there. Is that good for maps for today? I don't know if IT Mac-istan will be able to find links to weather for those places (I wouldn't put it past her), but the southern areas are really hot, and Sheki should be a little cooler than Baku--its in the mountains, I think.
Here's a map of Azerbaijan. Baku is that thing that's circled all the way to the east.
McCarthys--right click on the map, and select "Open Link in New Window." Then put the cursor arrow over the map and look for a little orange picture box with blue arrows. Click on that and it will let you zoom in so you can read the map.
So, you can see Baku on this, obviously. I've got to take some photos here of the city, because its so cool. There are really old beautiful building from before Soviet times. And there is the "old city" with most of its original city walls, with crazy tiny windy streets and alleys. The rest of Baku has only been here since about 1880.
Go west from Baku and you will see Yevlakh, where we are doing part of the Emergency Medicine Development program. For some reason, Gange isn't on here, although I think its bigger than Yevlakh. You can see Yevlakh is right on the oil pipeline, as most of our programs are, since we get a lot of money from the corporate social responsibility depts of the oil companys here. The train tracks give you an idea of where the pipeline is. There's a picture I took of an oil train on the pipeline going west to the Black Sea in Georgia below.
On the map you can also see Sheki, where I'm going tomorrow am. Its near Russia, north of Yevlakh. Then on Wednesday and Thursday I'll be in areas in the southwest: Lachin and Agdzhabedi. Lachin is where we have a Dept. of State program with the internally displaced persons from the Azerbaijan/Armenia wars over the land thats near Lachin, but part of Armenia on this map. Its right at the border. And Agdzhabedi is north of the border with Iran. We've had some community investment and health programs there. Is that good for maps for today? I don't know if IT Mac-istan will be able to find links to weather for those places (I wouldn't put it past her), but the southern areas are really hot, and Sheki should be a little cooler than Baku--its in the mountains, I think.
posted by Carey McCarthy at 8:00 AM
2 Comments:
Yay maps.
just for you, darlin. why don't you print it out. I think there's a square inch or two left in the red bathroom,no?
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