Have taken 2100+ photos (plus cell phone ones). Got a few selected to share with Friends and family from 9/23-9/30. I’m going to have to take some time after the trip to go through with decent editing tools to maximize and go through the best photos. https://photos.app.goo.gl/PqiGD57Fd6KM7zf2A
Its only been 6 days or so since the last update and I’m already struggling to remember everything. Miss the girls terribly. Can’t wait to come back to snuggle them and catch up in person. I’m curious – we put little hash marks on the wall for Savita and Nora …
Sitting here in Ugab Terrace lodge, a 2 day stop to see Desert Elephants on the way up to Etosha, where we are set to do some intense game drives before hitting the rich trove of the Chobe river in Botswana. Not sure if I’ll finish writing this here – …
Sitting here in the Kalahari desert, Namibia. Wondering how fast this past week went – and wondering that we have more than 2 weeks left. Wifi sucks here but here’s a link to the photos from the first week. I’ll take some time to comment on them and post them …
“There are years that ask questions and years that answer.” – Zora Neale Hurston I like that one. Feels right. Life feels tidal. Cyclical. Like Taylor Swift, it runs in eras. Speaking of eras, school has begun. We did our normal ice cream for dinner before the first day of …
Exhausty face. But in a good way. Had a really good weekend with the NMG. Rented a space in Wintergreen resort for two nights. I drove down with 3 other guys, the rest came on their own on their own time. We 9 at any one time, 10 altogether. I …
At the beginning of school, a new chapter. I always had a love hate relationship with the fall – the excitement and slight dread of something new and unknown, the grief and inertia of moving on from what you have known. Its a feeling that’s held over even though I …
The girls are in Florida. Yesterday as I was driving 66 into the city to get to DCA, I had a sudden flashback to more than 30 years ago. Driving the same stretch of highway, taking the Glebe road exit for a job interview that would take me here and …
Tick tick tick. Savi is off at the science camp. She was quite anxious the weekend before, getting to a fever pitch. J and I dropped her off at Dulles, meeting a van driven by interns from the Green Bank Observatory. They were lively college kids, and there were 5 …