Home again in Ottawa! Yay ( Read more... )

Still in Lundazi.

( The adventures continue... )

Thursday ended up being a looooong day.

( The safari begins )

Have arrived safely in Zimbabwe ( Read more... )

Back from three days in the rural wilds of northeastern Zambia.
Connected to the world again, albeit sporadically (the wireless connection here still sucks).
A little bit of time to recount further adventures.

( On to Chipata )

Spent the day at the CARE offices in central Lusaka, although there was some driving around so I did get to see some of the city.

( Lusaka )

The thought just keeps hitting me... like *WOW*...I'm actually in AFRICA...

Ok, haven't been here all that long. And about all I've seen is the inside of Johannesburg airport (which has the best airport shopping councourse I've seen anywhere) and the dark nighttime streets of Lusaka, but still...

I'm in AFRICA

how cool is that?

My day just got ambushed and shot all to hell

I'm not sure whether this is so funny it's sad, or so sad it's funny ( Read more... )

So once again Canada Day and the unending media litanies about all the things that make Canada so great and Canadians some wonderful people that the whole friggin' world loves. At least a few commentators are having the guts to go against the flow and admit that it's all so much bloody rubbish. All we are is a nation of smug self-righteous ( Read more... )