live in Switzerland now
Posted in Uncategorized on Jun 25th, 2008
A quick post… Last Sunday Jan, Kerry, and I went for a hike in a small place called Eggberge (edge mountain). Kind of hard to describe where it is, but that probably doesn’t matter here anyway. Saturday and Sunday were super mega really hot in Zurich: 34C ~ 93F. In a place where nobody has [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jun 23rd, 2008
So it turns out that I may have one of the world’s most beautiful field sites: out on a ridge 1000m above the Matter valley, just below the Weisshorn and its glacier, across from the highest mountain in Switzerland – the Dom, with a view to Breithorn and Monte Rosa in the south, and the [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jun 15th, 2008
So Ryan and Erin just had a new baby boy on Friday night. He doesn’t have a proper name yet because he decided to surprise his new parents by popping out a full 3 weeks early and catching them unprepared. I’m pushing to name him Gunnar, but I suspect that more pragmatic suggestions will prevail. [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jun 11th, 2008
Jan and I put up with each other for one whole year of marriage… so to celebrate we decided to treat ourselves to a trip to Lake Como. We took a long weekend, traveling by train and ferry boat on Saturday to the town of Verena (~6 hrs, near Bellagio), and staying through Monday. Sunday [...]