I will be going off the air today and tomorrow to spend time with family and friends to remember our oldest son Alexander, who left us a year ago after being involved in a tragic motor vehicle accident for which he had no fault, just weeks before finishing Abitur (grade 12) and not long after getting...

Our late son, Alexander, was passionate about many things, but aviation and Eagles were probably two of the top contenders. As mentioned in Alexander Schaub (1992.05.18 – 2010.06.28) … the speeches, pictures and songs for everyone who knew the “Champ” we have adopted an Eagle for him, named after his...

In Alexander Schaub … our son, brother and “champ” remembered I summarized my views and memories of the tragedy that ripped a great “champ” from our midst. In this blog post, posted at high-noon in sunny Vancouver, I would like to take the opportunity to thank all our friends, our family, the AFOS family...

On a more personal note … if you visit South-Africa make sure to say hi to Rosie and Nicola at the Dullstroom Bird of Prey & Rehabilitation Centre. For more information see http://birdsofprey.co.za/index.html . … located in Mpumalanga. … meet Rosie, the Tawny Eagle, adopted by our son Jacques Schaub...

I will unfortunately be offline for the foreseeable future as we head back home to embrace our fallen angel. I will resume the Rangers blog as soon as possible. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------...

After the first Christmas in Canada, which we spent with family and friends, we spoilt ourselves with a hiking day to Bowen island yesterday. Get up early, snooze for 2 hours on the bus, 1/2 hour on the boat and then step onto Bowen island. We enjoyed breakfast in a coffee shop run by South-Africans...

Here are a few images we took in Ladner village in Vancouver over the past few days. Robert … be warned when you start packing for your sabbatical, especially if anyone tells you that it never snows in Vancouver :)

I am often asked to create a biography for sessions, events, meetings and other reasons, finding myself scrambling for facts and doing it over and over and over again … now why aim for re-use other than with software?!? For the sake of re-use, visibility and primarily my own benefit …...

It is T+22 … in other words is was 22 days ago when my family and I, with the exception of our oldest son Alexander, arrived in Vancouver Canada, where I joined Bijan’s team as a VSTS Core Ranger. As mentioned in the heading the dust is settling and we are slowly but surely settling into...