This past Friday was the Burns Night supper which is held around the world to celebrate the birthday of Scotland’s greatest poet. I’m only posting it now because the phone lines were down all weekend. Bad timing but when is it good timing? I was asked to give the immortal memory speech […]

This past friday, as mentioned previously, there was a braai held at Mike’s house. We gathered for food and drink and to mingle and talk about geek issues here in Africa. One thing I heard about, unfortunately after the fact, was that a couple of the people at the braai had recently returned […]

The photo is of a dead mosquito in Hillsborough, New Jersey. That’s how I like these pests; dead. I killed it myself and luckily didn’t squash it too bad so I was able to take this lovely photo – beauty is in the eye of the beholder. I must admit I’m a […]

It’s a bloggin week here in Malawi. Tomorrow night Mike will be having a Braai (barbeque) at his place for Malawi bloggers and friends of Malawi bloggers. That’s about as close as you get to a guest list here in Lilongwe and it should be good. It seems about 20 people or […]

Today in Malawi is a national holiday. It is John Chilembwe day to commerate this national hero who was Malawi’s first principled rebel. I heard ex-pats mention him and some felt it was a somewhat dubious holiday since Mr. Chilembwe and his small group of followers cut a guy’s head off. They […]

I know I mentioned that this book rings true to life in Africa today and these passages don’t necessarily reflect that. Oh well, it was more from his descriptions of his childhood. Plus, I thought these were appropriate for what’s going on in the world these days.
When Peter Godwin was 18 he went […]

Jennifer left this afternoon for Zomba in the south where she will spend the night with a group of folks at a house owned by the US gov’t. Peace Corps and Embassy folks get access and there are some Peace Corp folks in the group. They’ll spend the night in Zomba and then […]

drive across the US with my buddy Tim

Mvuu Camp, Liwonde National Park
Liwonde, Malawi
This past Friday we borrowed our friend Stuart’s Toyota Land Cruiser and headed south to Liwonde National Park to spend the weekend at Mvuu Camp to look at animals, eat nice food and enjoy sundowners in the bush. It’s strange how quick you get used to the fact that […]

South Luangwa National Park, Zambia
Chikoko Camp and Tafika Camp
Alright, so we’re heading to a place called Mvuu for a weekend safari to take my sister Susan and her friend Chiemi and I don’t have much to say today so I decided to post an already written Honeymoon Part II recap…
On Sunday afternoon Victor took us […]