Life on the Mekong and Other Rivers

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Monday, June 27, 2011

Hiatus

Clearly not a well-updated blog. Going to make it official. Going on hiatus for a while. Maybe we'll post high school graduation phot...

Sunday, May 08, 2011

Babba and Grandpa came a'callin'

Nightly dance parties ensued, including some very nice surf safaris. Diana and Alan were the vanguard. In 2 weeks Luther and Marilyn arrive...

Saturday, April 30, 2011

Triathlete

So today was the AISL (American Int'l School of Lusaka) Triathlon. They had different versions of the race, including a "junior...

Monday, April 25, 2011

So...

...Jack's school has an outbreak of lice. Thus... shaved it off. Easier than trying to keep them at bay when you can't see them. We ...

Saturday, March 19, 2011

At least we have a constituency of one

Statement of Senator Patrick Leahy On The House Budget Allocations MR. LEAHY. Mr. President, last week the House Appropriation...

Tuesday, March 08, 2011

Danger at every turn

So we just got back from a harrowing visit to Cape Town. We couldn't turn around without facing some new and horrific risks. The first ...

Sunday, February 13, 2011

the boys

They are actually starting to play together a bit, although it usually ends up with Sam crying and Jack saying he didn't do anything. Th...

Jack and Phil

The first father-son golf outing. While Jack and Phil are off "golfing", Sam is napping and Katherine is relaxing. A good Sunday a...

Thursday, February 10, 2011

Sam Dance

More dance party. It's pretty much what we do.

Monday, January 24, 2011

Return of the dance party

So we got away from the dance parties for a while. Sam and Jack have reintroduced them to our nightly return. Check out Sam's sweet pos...

Sunday, January 23, 2011

'tis the season

the rainy season, which makes for muddy kids. the holiday season, in which Jack decided that he needed to wear a tie -- my tie -- to his sch...

Sunday, December 05, 2010

Remember us?

So we went to Liuwa Plain with our friends Jason and Kelley (of Sausage Tree fame) and their kids. It was fantastic. A few pics here

Saturday, October 16, 2010

Ships. Night. Passing. Whatnot

So Tuesday I went to Johannesburg for a conference that brought together economic officers from around sub-sarahan Africa. Pretty cool, and...

The view from our patio

in Luangwa. Giraffe conference. Elephant Parade pretty much daily. Anyway, looking at dates for a Nervig family reunion next June/July.

Saturday, October 02, 2010

Ambulatory

The kid has skills...newly acquired and not yet mastered skills.

Friday, October 01, 2010

C'mon people

32 of you viewed this here blog yesterday. If each of you gave just $25 for the elephant charge , that would be 25 X 32 dollars which is pro...

Thursday, September 30, 2010

The weekend at Sausage Tree

Simply awesome 24 hours in camp. Lionesses and cubs (just the one lioness here). But a few of them were being chased by elephants when we c...

Sunday, September 26, 2010

STC

Katherine and I are back from Sausage Tree Camp. 24 hours is not enough. Fantastic time -- leopards, lions, elephant everywhere. The rest...

Friday, September 24, 2010

More guests

We've thrown Katherine's brother Christian, her aunt Joanie and family friend Nancy (or Chachi, as I like to call her) onto the pile...

Thursday, September 23, 2010

Tell Your friends

Let's make some money for animals people!

Monday, September 20, 2010

Insufferable Do-Goodery

So I'm going to go tearing around the bush in some random part of Zambia in a truck with a team of people and will probably get lost a...

Sunday, September 19, 2010

B-day Boy!

So the boy turned 1 on September 3. We waited for the big celebration until Diana and Alan were in residence. I mean, Sam doesn't care...

Saturday, September 18, 2010

Oh yeah

And I did go to Swaziland (or, the Kingdom of Eswatini to those in the know) for work. Happened to be during the annual reed dance, or Umhla...

Hello there

Yesterday Diana and Alan arrived, and they brought instructions that we must start posting things to our blog again. The 10s of our rabid...

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