What a surprise. I haven't added anything to this blog for the last eighteen months or so. Well, things have changed, and with the extra time I'm going to have for the next ten months or so, I hope to blog more.
We finally! are on home assignment for a year after 22 years on the field. We've spend the first four months of it in South Africa where we mostly spend time with Anri and Sonja. We had a Theron family reunion, and it was good to also see some of my family again. We drove on the left side of the road, we ate boerewors and pap, droee wors and biltong. Pieter and Sonja went for a walk with lions (pictures will follow), and we applied for visas for America. Those two went together in one sentence on purpose, Pieter will tell you that walking with the lions was not half as much stress as applying for the visas. We're just not made for "embassy stuff", and I don't like talking and explaining through a thick glass.
After a 34 hour trip from Johannesburg through Dubai, flying over the North Pole and then back down over the west coast of America, we are now in Redding, Calfornia. This is where we'll be until next year May. It is a new culture for us, our first time in the US. So far it goes really well, everything is quite easy, Redding is not too big, and we have a wonderful and comfortable home to live in. I'm just waiting for the winter to arrive.
We finally! are on home assignment for a year after 22 years on the field. We've spend the first four months of it in South Africa where we mostly spend time with Anri and Sonja. We had a Theron family reunion, and it was good to also see some of my family again. We drove on the left side of the road, we ate boerewors and pap, droee wors and biltong. Pieter and Sonja went for a walk with lions (pictures will follow), and we applied for visas for America. Those two went together in one sentence on purpose, Pieter will tell you that walking with the lions was not half as much stress as applying for the visas. We're just not made for "embassy stuff", and I don't like talking and explaining through a thick glass.
After a 34 hour trip from Johannesburg through Dubai, flying over the North Pole and then back down over the west coast of America, we are now in Redding, Calfornia. This is where we'll be until next year May. It is a new culture for us, our first time in the US. So far it goes really well, everything is quite easy, Redding is not too big, and we have a wonderful and comfortable home to live in. I'm just waiting for the winter to arrive.
