South Africa
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Thursday, 20 Mar 2008 | Views [785]
It has been four years since our time in South Africa. The DeWildt Cheetah Centre is thriving. It is financially stable thanks largely to contributions from supporters in the US and Great Britain, corporate sponsorships, and to cheetah adoptions ... Read more >
Friday, 16 Jul 2004 | Views [697]
We are somewhere over North Africa (or maybe the Alps?) in the next to the last row of a Lufthansa 747. The back row is our preference since it is usually vacant and you can lie down and spread out. I actually got several hours sleep thanks to ... Read more >
Tuesday, 13 Jul 2004 | Views [1399]
We finished the student house on Friday and were feted last night at a braai where Ann gave us ‘ A Day in Africa and Spots Before Your Eyes, co-authored by her and Howard Buffet with a forward by Dr. Jane Goodall. We also met Ron Magill ... Read more >
Tuesday, 6 Jul 2004 | Views [754]
I have only six more pieces of tile left – the ugly cuts around the kitchen and several rooms of trim. We hope to be finished on Thursday. After work we stopped at the ‘compound’ to take pictures of Jackson’s baby and ended up taking shots of ... Read more >
Tuesday, 29 Jun 2004 | Views [850]
Nothing much exciting has happened since our return from Dwalbroom (which means‘last tree’, the southernmost baobab) with Kellie and Deon. We worked at m ore tiling, grouting and cleaning. I took Parks’ kids, Carumbo and Caroline (even when I saw ... Read more >
Friday, 25 Jun 2004 | Views [2508]
Despite the fact we haven’t been dealing with the care and feeding of cheetahs on a daily basis and our field work has been minimal, you can’t help but learn something when you are around so many dedicated researchers. DeWildt is the premier cheetah ... Read more >
Thursday, 24 Jun 2004 | Views [768]
Yesterday, our first day of tiling, was a bit of a disaster. Not only do we hurt, we also pretty much suck at tiling. So we’ve left for Atherstone Game Reserve in Limpopo 250 kilometers from DeWiltd to work with Deon and Kelly. As soon as we ... Read more >
Monday, 21 Jun 2004 | Views [608]
It is the first day of winter and, surprise, it rained during the night. Will my jeans ever dry? There isn’t much to report on. We finished all the little painting chores on Saturday and Sunday and joined Noel, Helen and a dozen of their friends ... Read more >
Thursday, 17 Jun 2004 | Views [675]
Today is my birthday - another year older, and what a year it has been. Vanessa’s 40 th birthday party got a little out of control the other night but no harm was done – except to her head. There were tons of food (although no one admits to eating ... Read more >
Tuesday, 15 Jun 2004 | Views [602]
It’s catch up time for the journal. We’ve been busy and it’s been hectic around here. Emmett, Marsha, our friends from Colorado, and their crew arrived on Saturday and to judge by the preparations you would think it was a visit from the King. ... Read more >
Wednesday, 2 Jun 2004 | Views [565]
Overnight what I thought was a jackal in the trash turned out to be a honey badger whose reputation for raiding thrash cans has earned him mention in the official Etosha guide book. Our long day began at the waterhole at 3:30am. It seemed like ... Read more >
Wednesday, 26 May 2004 | Views [475]
Before bedtime, chilled from the desert air, we decided to have some hot chocolate and schnapps, but were thwarted when the stove, for no apparent reason, ceased working. I am guessing that the fine dust seeped into the jets. This meant not only ... Read more >
Tuesday, 25 May 2004 | Views [688]
We are on vacation again and like so many first days, this one began early and included a lot of driving. We left DeWildt at 6:00am and by day’s end we had logged more than 1,000 kilometers – about 650 miles. About a third of the distance was ... Read more >
Sunday, 23 May 2004 | Views [497]
We just completed another seven day work week – 60+ hours. The painting is finally mostly finished. Some more trim and doors and the ever-present ‘touch up’. But this will have to wait until we return from Namibia! We couldn’t have accomplished ... Read more >
Thursday, 20 May 2004 | Views [752]
Tomorrow may be the final day of major painting – only the trim remains. It will be a pleasure to retire the shorts and t-shirt I have been wearing for nearly three weeks. I just didn’t want to ruin any good clothes! On the cheetah scene there ... Read more >
Monday, 17 May 2004 | Views [474]
Today marks the start of our third month in Africa and it’s really starting to seem like home. After work the other day as we were having a “sundowner” and popcorn, “there arose from the roof such a clatter” which we recognized right away. “It’s ... Read more >
Saturday, 15 May 2004 | Views [414]
It’s the end of another week of hard, non-stop work and we have taken the afternoon off. First a stop for lunch and a well- deserved drink at Jasmyn, then to the lodge to shower and do laundry. To keep the amount of paint splattered clothing to a ... Read more >
Tuesday, 11 May 2004 | Views [486]
We’ve been working on the house all week, mostly painting. The fumes from the enamel paint are taking their toll as is all the bending and stretching. When Connie stopped at the pharmacy to get Ibuprofen she got a funny look from the pharmacist ... Read more >
Friday, 7 May 2004 | Views [490]
Dear Friends We hope this finds all of you well. Internet access is difficult for us to arrange so we have to resort to ‘snail mail’. But it’s been a long time since I have written so a few more days (weeks?) won’t matter. And as I have ... Read more >
Thursday, 6 May 2004 | Views [467]
We got back into the work groove on Monday. Our task is to clean, paint and tile the farmhouse for staff living. It’s going to take a lot of work, the tools are second rate or non-existent and Andre is a control freak, doling out just what he ... Read more >
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