We took an expedition in the Congo Basin recently and almost didn't come back. Everyone who went encountered danger: Bruce was shivering with a blanket around him in the heat; he got malaria twice; Mick was bitten up by Tsetse flies on his back and had to stay in the hospital for a week when we returned to the U.S., losing 30 pounds; Louise, the only woman among us, had her legs bitten by ants into shapes like Braille; I was bitten badly by killer bees. But we all came out alive.